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OCR Page 1 of 38RN- Note Carton at
End of Report
WEEKEND NEWS REVIEW
March 27, 1972
The major stories of the weekend:
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
-- Dita Beard suffers a seizure after "sharp" period of questioning
by EMK and the "obviously shaken" Senators decide to wait 'til
she returns to better health to continue the questioning. Prior
to her apparent attack of angina, she again denies writing the
section of the memo linking GOP and ITT "I don't know where
that mother came from¹¹ and also says that WH called Merriam
last June about reported ITT contribution to GOP. Wires play this
call high in reports on seizure and also note Gurney question on
Beard's knowledge of Kleindienst immediately preceded seizure.
Wires and late CBS News. She says she knew memo was forgery
all along but neither Hume nor anybody at ITT would believe her.
More questions to be answered, says NBC in Sun. lead.
CBS
Sat. lead and mixed press play (p. 1 and prominent in Post and Sun;
noted in p. 1 Times and Star stories: inside Trib) to ITT report that
chemical analysis shows Beard memo written perhaps as late as
Jan. '72. Report seen to "challenge" and "dispute" FBI report
which received similarly mixed play in Sat. papers. Times and
Sun both report difficulty in getting details on how the ITT experts
reached their conclusions.
Sun briefly traces Beard lawyers to
GOP to Shipley to Colson tho nothing about latter 2 is said to relate
to ITT affair.
Other ITT developments: Anderson turns over
lie detector test on Hume to prove he was telling truth over Beard's
initial acceptance of memo's authenticity.
Times features complex
manuevering by ITT in order to receive a favorable, and unusual, tax
ruling on Hartford Fire Ins.
Mrs. Mitchell tells Betty Beale there's
no way that her husband and Beard spent anywhere near an hour talking
at Nunn party as Anderson claims.
Post has features on one of the
"mini-Presidents" Flanigan who retains confidence that record
will show he's done nothing wrong and another on Kleindienst who seeks
to retain his jaunty air in spite of obvious personal frustration over the
turn of events.
Jackman of NY News feels some actions of ITT
execs shreddings, etc -- show that all the yokels aren't down on the
farm.
7/5/74
Copy given to Geoff Shepard,
Office of Counsel to the President
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