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...trustbusting reputation of Richard McLaren, Mitchell's former antitrust chief and now a federal judge. Over it all loomed the blemished image of a hard-drinking, tart-tongued ITT lobbyist, Dita D. Beard, who was ill in a Denver hospital and unable to testify. It was her memo, as reported by Anderson, that described the supposed deal...
...same time, which is a "bad combination," and was suffering from a weak heart that impaired blood circulation to the brain. All that, he said, made her behavior "distorted and irrational." Going far beyond medical matters, he said she was "mad and disturbed" when she wrote her memo, and now had a "mental block" against recalling why she wrote it. He said that when she approached Mitchell at a Kentucky Derby party last May in the mansion of then Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn. Mitchell gave her "a dressing down such as I never heard in my life." He told...
...company was getting "a damn rotten deal." But each time Mitchell brushed her off, Nunn said, and Mitchell told her that "he didn't want to hear any more about it." Then Mrs. Beard became ill, collapsed in her motel room and had to be revived. In her memo, however, Mrs. Beard claimed she learned, partly through Nunn, that "Mitchell is definitely helping us, but cannot let it be known." In testifying, Nunn too could have had a personal motivation. He told the committee that he had spoken to Kleindienst to suggest his suitability for appointment as a federal...
There seems little doubt that she actually wrote the memo, but there are conflicting theories about why. According to one, she wrote it for the exact reason it states-to squelch loose talk about the $400,000 gift by company officials. Others suggest that she was about to be fired because of her abrasive personality and that she fabricated the memo to get even with ITT. The corporation has officially denied that the contribution to the G.O.P. was in any sense a political payoff, and insisted that there was no deal of any kind to settle the antitrust case...
...currency, too. The London Journals of General Raymond E. Lee, 1940-41 (Little, Brown) are bringing $12.50 on the open market, mostly for predicting-you read it here!-that Russia will prove too much for Hitler. So it's "Once more into the attics, fellow soldiers." Even old memos are worth their weight in gold, and that, given the art of military memo writing, is saying something. In 1945 Sir John Masterman, peacetime Oxford don, wartime counterspy, was ordered to write an official report about the remarkable success British intelligence enjoyed turning around German spies in England and deploying...