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22. Low Crimes and Misdemeanors in High Places: John Mitchell and Watergate. 51 pages. November 2004. $5. By Edmund Keeley.
This thoroughly-researched reexamination and retelling of the Watergate
scandal focuses on the role of John Mitchell, President NixonÕs former
law partner, his attorney general, and manager of his 1972 re-election
campaign. Mitchell became the fall-guy, eventually convicted of
conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury, and served 19 months in
prison. But that didnÕt save Nixon, who was forced to resign for the
attempted cover-up. Mitchell comes across as a somewhat different person
than his image in the press, as confirmed by one of his defense
attorneys, Plato Cacheris. It was MitchellÕs unwavering loyalty to Nixon
that did him in, in contrast with NixonÕs attempt to escape
responsibility by placing the blame on Mitchell. The last sentence of
this account wonders if in the end Mitchell still considered Nixon one
of his friends.
{ INTRODUCTION }
{ PUBLICATIONS OF THE FIVE AND TEN PRESS 1995-2005 }
{ ORDER FORM }
{ROBERT KEELEY'S BIOGRAPHICAL DATA}
{D.C. GOVERNANCE: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF RACE AND MONEY}
{ANNALS OF INVESTING
STEVE FORBES VS. WARREN BUFFETT }
{ THE FILE: A PRINCETON MEMOIR }
{ESSAYS FAST AND LOOSE: A CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY }
{LETTERS MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED}
{ INNOCENTS OF THE LATTER DAY: MODERN AMERICANS ABROAD }
{ ESSAYS COLD AND HOT: A NEW YEAR"S POTPOURRI}
{ MSS REVISTED }
{ THREE SEA STORIES }
{CREATURES OF THE EARTH AND THE MIND}
{MY COMMUTE}
{SIC TRANSIT}
{THE GREAT PHELSUMA CAPER - A DIPLOMATIC MEMOIR}
{THE PORT OF MISSING MEN - A NOVEL}
{ POETRY MOSTLY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK }
{ PARTING THE CURTAIN }
{ ESSAYS NEAR AND FAR: AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS }
{ RANDOM THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES, AND MEMORIES OF A BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE THAT IS NO MORE }
{ FROM THE HEARTLAND }
{ ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEN }
{ A STORY GOES WITH IT }
{ LOW CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN HIGH PLACES: John Mitchell and Watergate. }
{ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHITBECK. }
{ AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I. }
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