Word: mehren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first acts of his successor, George Mehren, 60, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was to try to persuade Nixon associates to get the Justice Department to drop the antitrust suit. In an answer to a questionnaire from Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, former AMPI Secretary Dwight I. Morris claimed to have evidence that Mehren offered Nixon Attorney Herbert W. Kalmbach another $300,000 in campaign funds if the suit were dropped. According to Morris, Kalmbach refused the offer because of the controversy raging over the Administration's antitrust settlement with...
Whatever the truth of the charge -Mehren has never commented on it publicly-the AMPI directors set out to clean up the cooperative's image. In August 1973, they hired the Little Rock law firm headed by Edward L. Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association, to investigate the cooperative's past political wheeling and dealing. He found plenty, as his report showed last week when it became public. Among the report's revelations...