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Then Subcommittee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy* began questioning him about Mulligan & Co.'s attempts to renew a contract with RCA a few months...
...Secretary of the Air Force" stationery, Talbott had written many letters to get business for Mulligan & Co. from firms with defense contracts: Chrysler Corp., Olin Industries Inc., Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., Avco Manufacturing...
Avco's President Victor Emanuel, who has a $200 million defense backlog, gave Mulligan a contract and enthusiastic recommendations to his friends...
...backed, marched into the hearing room with four officers, including a major general. "This is a shocking thing," he protested heatedly, "to point a finger of suspicion at a man that does not deserve it." Talbott, whose Government pay is $18,000 a year, said that his income from Mulligan & Co. is more than $50,000 a year (no significant change since 1953). Said he: "I was very anxious to retain my interest in Mulligan on account of the income, which I felt I needed." However, he offered to give up the partnership and income completely if the subcommittee would...
Talbott replied: "RCA had questioned the propriety of having another contract with Mulligan with me as a partner [and requested] that a letter be procured from the Attorney General. I said, 'My goodness, if there is any such suspicion, forget it.' " Repeatedly, Talbott was asked whether he and his Air Force general counsel, John Johnson, had called RCA Attorney Sam Ewing to complain. "My memory," he said, "is very hazy." Next day, after checking with Air Force Counsel Johnson, Harold Talbott remembered that he had indeed complained over the phone to RCA's Ewing about the contract...