JOHN MITCHELL: THE LABOR LEADER AND THE MAN. SEATED in a large willow-rocker near the window in strike headquarters in Wilkesbarre was a full-faced, clean-shaven man, with deep-set, luminous eyes, a firm mouth and a high forehead, with the brown,—almost black,—hair brushed carelessly back on the right side, as if by the fingers. A frock ...
two-page letter from Attorney General John Mitchell. I was not a Department of Justice employee, and Mitchell's acquaintance with me was largely second-hand. The contents were surprising. Mitchell generously lauded my rather modest role "in developing an effective and professional law enforcement program for the District of Columbia."
John N. Mitchell, Principal in Watergate, Dies at 75 By Lawrence Meyer Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 10, 1988; Page A01 John N. …
May 18, 2018 · From “In Prison With John Mitchell,” a 1979 Washingtonian story by Ronald James (the pen name of a television news producer serving time for cocaine trafficking), who was in prison with former Attorney General John Mitchell. Shortly before noon on June 22, 1977, a chauffeured Cadillac edged up a shrub-lined road toward the inevitable….John Newton …
Martha MitchellJohn N. Mitchell / Wife (m. 1957–1973)
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Richard KleindienstPresidentRichard NixonPreceded byJohn MitchellSucceeded byElliot Richardson10th United States Deputy Attorney General21 more rows
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On May 31, 1976, in the advanced stages of multiple myeloma, Mitchell slipped into a coma and died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City at age 57. Her son, her estranged husband, and daughter arrived at her funeral in Pine Bluff shortly after it began.
Howard Hunt — CIA operative and leader of the White House Plumbers; convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping; sentenced to 2½ to 8 years in prison; served 33 months in prison.
After his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he served as chairman of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Due to multiple crimes he committed in the Watergate affair, Mitchell was sentenced to prison in 1977 and served 19 months.
July 1972Mitchell resigned as head of the Committee for the Reelection of the President in July 1972, shortly after the arrest of several men discovered burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. In 1974 he was indicted on charges that he had ...
Dean married Karla Ann Hennings on February 4, 1962; they had one child, John Wesley Dean IV, before divorcing in 1970. Dean married Maureen (Mo) Kane on October 13, 1972.
Richard Nixon's tenure as the 37th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1969, and ended when he resigned on August 9, 1974, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, the only U.S. president ever to do so.
Ehrlichman died of complications from diabetes in Atlanta in 1999, after discontinuing dialysis treatments.
William G. Hundley, one of Mitchell's lawyers, said, "John never really wanted to come to Washington, never really wanted be attorney general or head Nixon's {1968 presidential} campaign. He was content to be a successful bond lawyer in New York . . . . But he obviously had great loyalty, admiration and respect for Nixon.
Mitchell's public downfall began in September 1972 when The Washington Post quoted sources involved in the Watergate investigation as saying that Mitchell, while attorney general, had "personally controlled a secret Republican fund used to gather information about the Democrats.".
Although Mitchell, according to testimony, turned down that proposal, he eventually approved giving Liddy and his coconspirators $250,000 for another project: the break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Office Building in Washington.
In early 1972 Mitchell resigned as attorney general to become director of the Committee to Re-elect the President. It was the 1972 Nixon reelection campaign that led to Mitchell's disgrace, and the ultimate toppling, in August 1974, of the Nixon administration.
Even before assuming formal control of the Nixon campaign, according to testimony in the Watergate hearings, Mitchell had serenely listened in his Justice Department office to a proposal by G. Gordon Liddy to use prostitutes and electronic listening devices to get information from Democratic officials.
Mitchell and Nixon Finance Committee Chairman Maurice H. Stans were indicted in May 1973 on federal charges of obstructing an investigation of Vesco after he made a $200,000 contribution to the Nixon campaign. In April 1974 both men were acquitted in a New York federal court.
The only defendant acquitted was Kenneth W. Parkinson, a Washington lawyer who had been hired by the reelection committee to represent it after the Watergate break-in. . Mitchell's death prompted a broad array of reaction. "I'm saddened.
From “In Prison With John Mitchell,” a 1979 Washingtonian story by Ronald James (the pen name of a television news producer serving time for cocaine trafficking), who was in prison with former Attorney General John Mitchell. Shortly before noon on June 22, 1977, a chauffeured Cadillac edged up a shrub-lined road toward the inevitable….John Newton ...
When the judge denied the writ, Mitchell told Lawson, “Now isn’t that a damn shame. I appointed that son of a bitch.
For his first meal in prison, Mitchell was taken to lunch by an inmate from the Receiving and Discharge office. His first confrontation with one of his fellow inmates took place in the chow hall.
His first confrontation with one of his fellow inmates took place in the chow hall. Making his way through the cafeteria-style food line, Mitchell waited his turn like all the other convicts. He was conscious that all eyes were on him.
Mitchell later began receiving his own newspapers via the mail, taking the Washington Post and New York Times. Both arrived two or three days after publication. “I never know whether to call him John or Mr. Mitchell,” the con said, “and he doesn’t seem to want to let you know which he prefers.”.
He occupied the lower bunk in the two-man cubicle and had no roommate. Then a huge black inmate was moved into Mitchell’s cube and assigned the top bunk. It became immediately apparent that Mitchell would not warm up to the idea, or the reality, of having a man bunked above him.
Controversially for a republican tradition that has viewed Mitchel, in the words of Pádraic Pearse, as a "fierce" and "sublime" apostle of Irish nationalism, in the American exile into which he escaped in 1853, Mitchel was an uncompromising pro-slavery partisan of the Southern secessionist cause.
John Mitchel ( Irish: Seán Mistéal; 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, author, and political journalist. In the Famine years of the 1840s he was a leading writer for the Nation produced by the Young Ireland group and their splinter from Daniel O'Connell 's ...
On 25 October 1845 Mitchel wrote on "The People's Food", pointing to the failure of the potato crop, and warning landlords that pursuing their tenants for rents would force them to sell their other crops and starve. On 8 November, in an article titled "The Detectives", he wrote, "The people are beginning to fear that the Irish Government is merely a machinery for their destruction; ... that it is unable, or unwilling, to take a single step for the prevention of famine, for the encouragement of manufactures, or providing fields of industry, and is only active in promoting, by high premiums and bounties, the horrible manufacture of crimes!".
In 2018 Mitchel's racial defence of slavery again cast a shadow upon his reputation. With reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, petitions were launched, receiving over 1,200 signatures from Newry residents, calling for a statue of Mitchel in the centre of the town to be removed, and John Mitchel Place, in which it stands, to be renamed. With the support of Unionist members who feared “creating a dangerous precedent” (people might "find other streets and names where they’d find fault with it or have some issue from a historical context"), the nationalist majority Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, in June 2020, agreed only that council officers "proceed to clarify responsibility for the John Mitchel statue, develop options for an education programme, identify the origins of John Mitchel Place and give consideration as to other potential issues in relation to slavery within the council area.”
After the secession from the American Union of several Southern states in February 1861 and the bombardment of Fort Sumter (during which his son John commanded a South Carolina battery), Mitchel was anxious to return. He reached New York in September and made his way to the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.
One of Mitchel's first steps into Irish politics was to face down threats of Orange retaliation by helping arrange, in September 1839, a public dinner in Newry for Daniel O'Connell, the leader of the campaign to repeal the 1800 Acts of Union and restore a reformed Irish Parliament.
Mitchel's response was not to join O'Connell in proclaiming himself "the friend of liberty in every clime, class and color" Rather, it was to insist on a racial distinction between the Irish and the "negro". This Duffy discovered in 1847 when he conceded temporary editorship of the Nation to Mitchel.
John Mitchell stepped down, saying he wanted to focus on his family.
According to Mitchell, for the next 24 hours, the guard, who was working on orders from her husband, former attorney general John Mitchell, refused to let her leave. Every time she tried to escape, the guard caught her. Later she recounted, “From then on I saw no one — allowed no food — and literally kept a prisoner.”.
The only bright spot for Martha was that Nixon didn’t get away with it. In 1974, amid impeachment proceedings, the president gave a televised address announcing his resignation. In 1975, John Mitchell was convicted on five counts for the cover-up and served 19 months in federal prison.
Martha Mitchell’s legacy was laced with hearsay and ulterior motives, and the sexism seen in portrayals of her continues to the present day. Fox News reporter James Rosen, in his 2008 book The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, wrote, “After Watergate, critics of the Nixon administration depicted Martha Mitchell as ...
That summer, Nixon was running for reelection, and her husband was serving as the campaign’s manager. A 53-year-old southern belle from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, she was a lively figure in the Washington social scene, known for her humorous tirades against liberals and communists and her willingness to say exactly what she thought.
In the summer of 1972, Martha Mitchell was on the telephone in her hotel room in Newport Beach, California, when a security guard for President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign walked over and yanked the cord out of the wall. According to Mitchell, for the next 24 hours, the guard, who was working on orders from her husband, ...
But Rosen , a prominent reporter for a conservative outlet, had a horse in the race, too. He relied on gender tropes to take Mitchell down, calling her “a sick, mean, and ignorant woman, roiling with vanity and insecurity.”.
In retirement, Eisenhower remained marginally active in political life. He spoke at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco in 1964, unleashing well-received barbs against the media.
In 1999, Congress created the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. In 2009, the commission chose the architect Frank Gehry to design the memorial, which will stand on a four-acre site near the National Mall on Maryland Avenue, across the street from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Among other achievements, he is favorably remembered for having ended the Korean War and championing the Interstate Highway System. In 2012, historian John Lewis Gaddis reflected that “historians long ago abandoned the view that Eisenhower's was a failed presidency ….
For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.”. In 1999, Congress created the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission.
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (August 3, 1922 – December 21, 2013) was a United States Army officer, diplomat, and military historian. He was a son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. His military career spanned from before, during, and after his father's presidency, and he left active duty in 1963 ...
During his father's presidency, John Eisenhower served as Assistant Staff Secretary in the White House, on the Army's General Staff, and in the White House as assistant to General Andrew Goodpaster .
As a military historian, Eisenhower wrote several books, including The Bitter Woods, a study of the Battle of the Bulge, and So Far from God, a history of the Mexican–American War. In a New York Times review of the latter, historian Stephen W. Sears remarked that Eisenhower "writes briskly and authoritatively, and his judgments are worth reading." Eisenhower wrote Zachary Taylor: The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849–1850 (2008). John Eisenhower also wrote the forewords to Borrowed Soldiers, by Mitchell Yockelson of the U.S. National Archives, and to Kenneth W. Rendell 's Politics, War and Personality: 50 Iconic Documents of World War II .
The Eisenhowers had four children: Mary Jean Eisenhower (b. 1955, Washington, D.C. ). All of his daughters were presented as debutantes to high society at the prestigious International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. John and Barbara divorced in 1986 after thirty-nine years of marriage.
Army during World War II and the Korean War, remaining on active duty until 1963; then serving in the U.S. Army Reserve until retirement in 1975 – attaining the rank of brigadier general.
A decorated soldier, Eisenhower found his World War II military career thwarted by fears for his safety and concern from the top brass that his death or capture would be a distraction to his father, the Supreme Allied Commander. During World War II, he was assigned to intelligence and administrative duties.
Eisenhower was born on August 3, 1922, in Denver, Colorado, to future U.S. President and United States Army General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie; he was their second child. Their elder son, Doud, known affectionately as "Icky", died in 1921, at age three, after contracting scarlet fever. Eisenhower, like his father, attended the United States Military Academy, graduating on June 6, 1944, the day of the Normandy landings, which his father was commanding.
Throughout that time, Nixon and his aides accused Martha Mitchell of being an alcoholic, liar, and unscrupulous attention-seeker. Publicly shamed, recently divorced from her husband due to the scandal, and estranged from her children, Mitchell lived out of the public eye for two years after Nixon left office.
Soon after the break-in, Mitchell got hold of a newspaper and learned of McCord’s arrest, as well as the fact that her husband had lied publicly about whether McCord worked for CRP. She tried to call her husband and demand an explanation but was rebuffed by a Nixon aide.
Live. •. Excerpt from a 1973 interview in which Martha Mitchell discusses Watergate and her captivity in California. After her release, the indefatigable Mitchell spoke publicly in multiple interviews about having been “held captive.”.
One of her favorite hobbies was calling them up and giving them an earful of the latest scandalous political chatter . And the reporters listened closely because Martha Mitchell always had an inside scoop: She was married to Attorney General John Mitchell and had a habit of listening in on his phone calls and meetings.
Today, psychologists still use the phrase “Martha Mitchell Effect” to refer to someone whose descriptions of real experiences are incorrectly labeled delusions. Though Nixon, John Mitchell, and the rest of the Watergate participants eventually got their comeuppance, it’s worth noting that Steve King is doing just fine.
But if Deep Throat delivered the final nail in the coffin for the Nixon administration, Martha Mitchell hammered in the very first, only to be gaslighted by the general public for the rest of her too-short life.
The Watergate Scandal. John Mitchell was a trusted member of President Richard Nixon’s inner circle and in 1972 resigned as attorney general to become director of the Committee to Reelect the President.