John N. Mitchell

thumb John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was United States Attorney General under President Richard M. Nixon. Quotes You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. Remarks (overheard by reporters) in July 1969 after meeting with a group of black civil rights workers, who protested the Administration's action on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 reported in : The Washington Post, "Watch What We Do," editorial (July 7, 1969), p. A22. https://books.google.com/books?id=91IFAYFhtOMC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Mitchell Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations James H. Billington, Library of Congress 2010 Courier Corporation Google Books https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/14/opinion/essay-watch-what-we-do.html Watch What We Do William Safire 14 November 1988 The New York Times https://books.google.com/books?id=POhHuoGILNYC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=Watch-What-We-Do Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past Bruce Bartlett 8 January 2008 Palgrave Macmillan Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=eNrMbvyHhrIC&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=Watch-What-We-Do We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era Robert Charles Smith 22 July 1996 SUNY Press Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=fHIGQTGemnAC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=watch-what-we-do The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate James Rosen 20 May 2008 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=You-will-be-better-advised The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations Rawson, Hugh; Miner, Margaret. 2006 Oxford University Press, USA Google Books This country is going so far to the right you won't recognize it. To a reporter, mentioned in : http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/obituaries/john-n-mitchell-dies-at-75-major-figure-in-watergate.html?pagewanted=all John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate November 10, 1988 The New York Times All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Katie Graham's 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. Quoted by : Katharine Graham https://books.google.com/books?id=jkxz77hC_48C&pg=PA465&dq=tit Personal History 22 July 1997 Alfred A. Knopf (via Google Books) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/graham.htm The Watergate Watershed -- A Turning Point for a Nation and a Newspaper Katharine Graham January 28, 1997 The Washington Post Bernstein, Carl Woodward, Bob All The President's Men 1974 Simon and Schuster New York 105 External links Category:Lawyers from New York (state) Category:United States Attorneys General Category:1913 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Politicians from Detroit Category:Politicians from New York (state)