The strong man; John Mitchell and the secrets of Watergate.9780385508643 The strong man; John Mitchell and the secrets of Watergate. Rosen, James. Doubleday 2008 609 pages $35.00 Hardcover KF373 Rosen (a Washington correspondent for Fox News) presents a biography of Richard Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell, whose conviction in the Watergate cover-up trial provided the dubious honor of being the highest-ranking US government official to have to serve time in prison. Rosen addresses a host of previously unanswered questions, including whether Mitchell ordered the Watergate break-in, Mitchell's role in the SEC case against fugitive financier Robert Vesco Robert Lee Vesco (born December 4, 1935) is a US financier who fled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation and ended up in Cuba. Biography Robert Vesco took over a small New Jersey industrial company called International Controls Corporation , the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in Watergate, the response of Mitchell to the discovery that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were spying on Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Mitchell's activities concerning school desegregation The attempt to end the practice of separating children of different races into distinct public schools. Beginning with the landmark Supreme Court case of brown v. board of education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S. Ct. 686, 98 L. Ed. and antitrust laws antitrust laws n. acts adopted by Congress to outlaw or restrict business practices considered to be monopolistic or which restrain interstate commerce. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 declared illegal "every contract, combination.... , and Mitchell's response to Kent State. Also covered is Mitchell's involvement in cases concerning Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, , Lt. William Calley, Jimmy Hoffa, Robert Vesco, Abe Fortas, Clement Haynsworth, John Lennon, the Berrigan Brothers, the Black Panthers, and ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) . In the end, Mitchell is portrayed as a man who repeatedly served as a restraining influence on the darker urges of Richard Nixon and as a victim of many unfair charges concerning the Watergate affair, although some unpunished unpunished Adjective without suffering or resulting in a penalty: the guilty must not go unpunished, such crimes should not remain unpunished Adj. 1. crimes are also noted, such as his illegal intervention with South Vietnamese officials at the 1968 Paris peace talks, his false testimony before the Senate concerning the ITT case, and his false statements to the FBI agents investigating the 1969-71 Kissinger wiretaps. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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