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...presidential assistant concluded a discussion of the ITT affair (see story on page 86) by telling a junior staff member: "You know, the President doesn't like unnecessary memos like that [Lobbyist Dita Beard's] anyway." He then produced a presidential directive cautioning against treating mere memo writing as a sign of productivity. The present orders for increased discretion were, of course, delivered orally...
Last week the White House began a coordinated counterattack, mobilizing Republican Senators, the Republican National Committee and the Justice Department in an effort to discredit Anderson, his charges and the press coverage of the ITT case. Most dramatically, ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, from the Denver hospital where she is said to be suffering from severe angina pectoris, issued a statement disavowing her now famous memo as a forgery, "a false and salacious document." Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska damned the hearings as "this smear-a-day campaign" brought on "because of a spurious document dredged up by the Louella Parsons...
...most eagerly awaited answers involved Mitchell's relationship with ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, who claimed in her confidential memo to her corporate superiors that Mitchell was "definitely helping us" with the ITT settlement. Mitchell's response was swift and curt. Mrs. Beard approached him three times at a Kentucky Derby party in Louisville, he said, and on the third sally, "I told her in rather harsh terms that I didn't appreciate her approaching me." His message was: shove...
Name Dropping. Some fellow lobbyists in Washington believe that if the memo was a fake, it was one perpetrated by Mrs. Beard. Among the lobbying fraternity in the capital, where salaries for such work often climb to six figures, Dita Beard was virtually unknown; she earned only $30,000 and lived in a modest house in nearby Arlington, Va. Important lobbyists entertain in baronial houses, charter airplanes, give lavish cocktail parties. Dita Beard lived more like a suburban schoolteacher. Once a year, in ITT's name, she gave a small Christmas cocktail party for 30 or 40 people. Curiously...
...theory persists that her memo, which claimed wide-ranging contacts and influence, was sheer bravado, "papering a job" with a name-dropping report to convince an employer that his interests are getting extensive and impressive care. Said one senior lobbyist: "For a job like this, one does not hire a $30,000-a-year flunky to swing a billion dollar deal." Besides, he added, "You never, never write it down. That's the first rule of the business...