Chapter Six

Nixon’s Attorneys General

“When told that the Washington Post would publish a story linking Mitchell to payments to the Watergate burglary, Mitchell proclaimed, All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It’s all been denied. Katie Graham’s (Washington Post publisher) gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard.” 

—John Mitchell to Carl Bernstein, September 28, 1972.

John Mitchell

John Mitchell was Nixon’s first attorney general.  Mitchell was a former Nixon law partner who resigned from the Justice Depart...

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