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...Merriam: No, that is right, but there might have been a lot of others in there like that...
...toward underwriting the Republican National Convention in San Diego in August. The now famous Dita Beard memo quoted by Columnist, Jack Anderson, clearly implied a link. Mrs. Beard denied authorship, but admitted she had written another similar memo on convention financing and had delivered it personally to William R. Merriam, head of ITT's Washington office. Last week, however, Merriam told the committee that he knew of no such memo, had never commissioned it and never received...
...Error. Merriam's testimony hardly squared with the recollections of Republican Congressman, Bob Wilson, of San Diego, who said in a taped interview last month, that Merriam told him he had received the Beard memo. Wilson added in the interview that "Jack Anderson has the original memo...
...last week Wilson told the committee it was all a semantic misunderstanding, that by using the word "original" he was simply referring to the top copy of a memo, not necessarily the memo Mrs. Beard says she wrote. Merriam admitted telling Wilson he had received the memo from Mrs. Beard; lamely adding that he discovered later he had not received any memo and simply had not bothered calling Wilson back to correct himself...
Neither witness was very convincing to the committee. When Democratic Senator, Sam Ervin asked who had given the orders for the destruction of ITT's Washington files after the committee investigation had begun, Merriam replied...