John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was United States Attorney General under President Richard M. Nixon.
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Quotes
[edit]- 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.
- James H. Billington, Library of Congress (2010). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. Courier Corporation.
- William Safire (14 November 1988). Watch What We Do. The New York Times.
- Bartlett, Bruce (8 January 2008). Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Smith, Robert Charles (22 July 1996). We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era. SUNY Press.
- Rosen, James (20 May 2008). The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Rawson, Hugh; Miner, Margaret. (2006). The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. Oxford University Press, USA.
- reported in :
- 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
- This country is going so far to the right you won't recognize it.
- To a reporter, mentioned in :
- "John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate". The New York Times. November 10, 1988.
- To a reporter, mentioned in :
- 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 Personal History. Alfred A. Knopf (via Google Books) (22 July 1997).
- Katharine Graham (January 28, 1997). The Watergate Watershed -- A Turning Point for a Nation and a Newspaper. The Washington Post.
- Bernstein, Carl; Woodward, Bob (1974). All The President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 105.
- Quoted by :
