[Am-info] Re: Presidents Enforcing Anti-trust law

[sturde@az.com]

In <20020401023602.5A4F929B66@lists.essential.org>, on 03/31/02 
   at 09:36 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:

>Frankly, I 
>think you'd have to go back to William Howard Taft to find a Republican 
>president who was favorable to the enforcement of antitrust laws, and
>even  he had pulled back from the commitment of his predecessor.

FDR did sign into law the Clayton Anit-trust Act.  I believe Eisenhower
signed into law the Robinson-Patmen antitrust Act.  LBJ sued IBM.  Carter,
I believe sued AT&T.  And in any coporate buy out or merger of any size,
it is not unusual for the anti-trust department of the DOJ to have some
say so in it.

James Sturdevant


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