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    "ocrText": "3:25 PM TOM CORCORAN to D. WORTH CLARK continued.\nCLARK (Continued): and very vehemently said: 'I want to give you some\nunsolicited advise. So there's more to this whole thing than\nmeets the eye. They're just busy again. Now here's one thing\nI\nthink ought to be done. And I'll arrange for it. I think\nyou ought to get ahold of HENRY (GRUENWALD) and get whatever\nconnection he's got in Memphis, Tennessee to get us a case history\non this fellow JASSPON. I've got reason to believe that he is the\nwhole nigger in this woodpile. As you know PROCTOR & GAMBLE have\nthat big plant there. Now I've got OLMSTEAD at work on the damn\nthing. You may trust him or distrust him. We've had all that out.\nBut in any event, he happens to be right in this instance and this\npoker thing was very definitely goin' (or gone) into hearings.\nI've just had all the testimony read to me. And even old JUDGE\nTARVER in whom I have no confidence completely exonerated him.\nNow, first, I want to get the report. Now I can get it myself--\nI don't want you to break your pick--from TOM CLARK (Attorney General)\nthat the FBI have just turned in, ah, to the Attorney General, and\nthey've turned it in since BIDDLE quit, on this whole damn thing\nin\nwhich they give OLMSTEAD an absolutely complete bill of health. Now,\nI don't want to mix OLMSTEAD up in this, because I know of ANDERSON's\ngrudges, but I want to get it so I'll have it. I'll just call TOM\n(CLARK) myself and that'll keep you out of it. I know him slightly\nenough to where I won't be breaking any picks and just tell him I'd\nlike to get it if possible. Now they haven't turned that damn thing\nover to agriculture at all. CLINT hasn't even seen this FBI report\nand it's the most exhaustive thing that's been made. Now, secondly,\nI would like very much if HENRY (GRUNEWALD) can get somebody out there\nto go to work on this fellow JASSPON. P & G have their plant in\nMemphis which was built by CHIP ROBERTS (phonetic) as you know. And--\nit was built by CHIP ROBERTS for various reasons which I can't prove\nright now but which, ah, I think I know about. And JASSPON has been\ndoing business---he in the fats and oils business out there---he's\ngot a lot of little crushing plants and he sells every god damned bit\nof his stuff, so I'm advised, to PROCTOR & GAMBLE at their plant in\nMemphis. And that's just good business because, what the hell, they\ngot a plant there and he'd have to ship to St. Louis and so forth to\nget to LEVERS (LEVER BROTHERS) and so it's damn good business. And if\nI can get a check on him, then what I think I'll do is just try, to\njust make a personal issue out of this with ANDERSON before he does.\nNow, JASSPON's going up there and they've got the whole P & G lobby in\nthere again and, JIM, that just bears out what you said about JEFF WOOD\nbeing up there and buying these presents and so forth and it---and\nthat's why, that is one reason why ANDERSON was very definitely\nprejudiced and that is one reason why he appeared to know so much\nabout a situation that he could not possibly have known that much\nabout and when he started to argue with us, and wrong of course, on\nmost of his stuff. I mean, he had, he got it on the fly, he got it\nfrom JASSPON I'm perfectly convinced. I don't think there is any\nquestion about it and I think he called JASSPON automatically and"
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