To: Horgad who wrote (131528 ) 3/6/2017 2:15:37 PM From: Elroy Jetson Read Replies (1) | Respond to If you had though to ask about this a number of years ago, you could have asked former 67th Attorney General for the United States, John N. Mitchell, whether he thought it possible for a Republican Attorney General to be convicted of Perjury for not being honest to Congress about the President's election campaign.the mouth of the south ”, she at first was an outspoken advocate for Richard Nixon and his administration, but turned on Nixon when her husband was being thrown under the bus during Watergate.” I do remember her telling me early on in her time in Washington, “Politics is a dirty business,” and I remember equally well a memorable remark her husband made shortly after they arrived: “Watch what we do, not what we say. ” Excellent advice.“On Thursday at about 9:00 P.M., Doug and I were at home, just finishing dinner, when the phone rang. It was Martha. She sounded calm, sad and uncharacteristically subdued. We chatted for a little while and I asked her about Watergate. “That’s it,” she said. “I’ve given John an ultimatum. I’m going to leave him unless he gets out of the campaign. I’m sick and tired of politics. Politics is a dirty business.” Then suddenly, her voice became more agitated and she yelled, “You get away. Just get away,” and the line went dead. I tried to call back several times without success and then called the switchboard operator. I was told that “Mrs. Mitchell is indisposed and cannot talk.” “In an interview later, Martha told me, “I want to be sure my side is revealed and that people know I’m not sitting here a mental case or an alcoholic.” What happened in that villa? She later told me a hair-raising story: “They threw me down on the bed—five persons did it—a doctor, a nurse, Lea Jablonsky . . . pulled my pants down and stuck a needle in my behind, the longest needle you ever saw. I’ve never been treated like this before.” She had a gash in her hand that she said required eleven stitches”. “If it hadn’t been for Martha Mitchell, there’d have been no Watergate.” More accurately, if it hadn’t been for Martha Mitchell, Nixon would have been able to make Watergate go away.
