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KNOW IF I COUNTED RIGHT, BUT I FOUND AMONG YOUR 200-PLUS INTERVIEWS THE FIRST ONE MIGHT BE DECEMBER 17, 1991, PETER FLEMING, AN ATTORNEY IN NEW YORK....
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WHO WAS HE? GUEST: HE WAS JOHN MITCHELL'S ATTORNEY THAT REPRESENTED HIM IN THE FIRST CRIMINAL TRIAL WHERE MITCHELL AND MAURICE STANS WERE ON TRIAL IN...
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ACQUITTED IN FULL. FLEMING WAS A BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT TRIAL ATTORNEY BUT
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PERHAPS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER IN NEW YORK CITY. HE REPRESENTED JOHN MITCHELL IN THE
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GUEST, -
TRIAL. THE REASON I MADE HIM THE FIRST INTERVIEWEE IS BECAUSE HE WAS A TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY. I HAD NOT LONG BEFORE ANNOUNCED TO MY FAMILY THAT I WAS...
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REMEMBER. I WAS FRESH OUT
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GUEST, -
OF COLLEGE. I HAD GRADUATED FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN 1990. I HAD HAD IN MIND WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE THAT PERHAPS I WOULD DO AS A
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SENIOR THESIS A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MITCHELL BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY KNOWN QUITE A BIT ABOUT NIXON AND WATERGATE
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GUEST, -
AND HE WAS THE ONE MAJOR FIGURE WHO NEVER WROTE HIS OWN BOOK. THERE WERE THREE BOOKS ABOUT HIS WIFE. NO BOOKS ABOUT OR BY JOHN MITCHELL. AS IT TURNED...
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WHO WAS HE GUEST: JOHN MITCHELL WAS RICHARD NIXON'S LAW PARTNER IN THE MID 1960'S AFTER NIXON HAD LOST TO JOHN F. KENNEDY FOR THE
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GUEST, -
PRESIDENCY, LOST THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR AND CAME EAST TO MAKE MONEY.
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HE WAS BORED. NIXON'S LAW FIRM MERGED WITH
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GUEST, -
MITCHELL'S.
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HOST, -
MITCHELL THEN RAN THE 1968 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
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GUEST, -
FOR NIXON SUCCESSFULLY. MITCHELL THEN WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1969 TO 1972, VERY TURBULENT PERIOD. PERHAPS THE MOST TURBULENT...
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HOST, -
PRISON. GUEST: THAT'S
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GUEST, -
CORRECT. HOST: WHAT DID
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HOST, -
THEY TALK ABOUT, DO YOU KNOW IN GUEST: THAT
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GUEST, -
LOST TO HISTORY. MITCHELL'S ATTORNEY AT THE TIME SAID HE WOULD MAKE FUN OF MITCHELL FOR EVEN TAKING THE CALLS LIKE HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS. YOU...
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AND NIXON IS OUT THERE. MITCHELL WOULD SAY BILL, YOU DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING.
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GUEST, -
HOST: AFTER ALL THIS RESEARCH DO YOU
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HOST, -
KNOW WHO ORDERED WATERGATE BREAK-IN? FRNTS
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GUEST, -
I COME TO SOME CONCLUSIONS IN THE BOOK. HOST: WHAT ARE THEY? GUEST: JOHN DEAN CORRESPONDING TO MY RESEARCH, MY EVIDENCE THAT I WAS ABLE TO DEVELOP,...
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HOST, -
HOST: WHY IN GUEST: THIS IS COMPLICATED, BUT CONSIDER THAT THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN
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WAS NOT JUST
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GUEST, -
BREAK-IN, IT WAS ACTUALLY A WIRETAPPING OPERATION. IT WENT ON FOR APPROXIMATELY THEY WEEKS IN MAY AND JUNE OF 1972 BEFORE THE ARRESTS OF JUNE 17,
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1972. THERE WERE TWO WIRE TAPS THAT WERE PLANTED
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GUEST, -
INSIDE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS. WITHIN WAS ON THE TEMPLE OF A SEKTCRETARY OF LARRY O'BRIEN WHO WAS THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE...
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| 00:11:18 |
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GUEST: THIS WAS SPRING OF 1973 WHEN THE WATERGATE COVER-UP WAS COMING UNBLUD AND INCREASINGLY MRS. MITCHELL WAS COMING UNBLUDGLUED UNGLUED. SHE WAS...
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GUEST, -
IS AS HER FIRST HUSBAND WHO IS STILL ALIVE TOLD YOU AS HE DID ME OR AS OTHERS WHO KNEW HER WELL WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU, THIS WAS A SOMEWHAT MEAN SPIRITED...
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TO FIND. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, TOO, MY RESEARCH ON HAD BOOK BEGAN BEFORE THE INTERNET
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GUEST, -
EXISTED. BEFORE AL GORE GOT AROUND
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| 00:13:09 |
HOST, -
TO INVEST VENTING. SO, A NAME LIKE MARTHA MITCHELL COULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO RESEARCH. I FOUND HER AND SHE CALLED ME IN 1992, MARTY DID, AND SHE...
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| 00:14:04 |
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WHO STUCK BY HIM? GUEST: JOHN MITCHELL IS THE CLOSEST THING TO A FRIEND THAT RICHARD NIXON HAD. HENRY KISSINER TOLD ME NIXON REALLY HAD NO CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS...
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GUEST, -
THEM. BUT MITCHELL WAS THE CLOSEST TO A FRIEND THIS NIXON HAD. MITCHELL WAS JUST A FEW MONTHS YOUNGER THAN NIXON BUT NIXON LOOKED UP TO MITCHELL...
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HOST, -
TRIED TO GO TO DO IT IN PERSON. SOME INTERVIEWS OF A NATURE WHERE YOU ARE SHOWING PEOPLE EVIDENCE AND YOU ARE LAYING OUT PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS AND THERE...
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GUEST, -
TO FACE. HOST: SO, PAINT THE PICTURE OF HOW YOU DID THIS. WHERE WERE YOU -- IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS YOU GOT MARRIED SO YOUR LIFE CHANGED. WHERE WERE YOU...
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| 00:19:02 |
HOST, -
VERY DISAPPOINTED DID NOT LIVE TO SEE THE BOOK. PUBLICATION WAS DELAYED AT THE END AND SART HE DIDN'T LIVE TO SEE IT. BUT, I WAS WORKING OUT OF WHEREVER...
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| 00:21:31 |
HOST, -
HERE ON
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GUEST, -
PAGE 183, AND I WANT TO USE THIS AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU DO THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BOOK. EHRLICHMAN CALLED ME ASIDE AND SAID -- LET ME START AT THE...
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| 00:21:50 |
HOST, -
HOST: OFTEN YOU SAY IT A UNPUBLISHED TRANSCRIPT. HOW DID YOU FIND SO MUCH THAT WAS UNPUBLISHED IN GUEST: BY COME MRIEG WITH SO MUCH OF IT. ONE THING...
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PRECEDED ME ON THE SUNT. I WILL GIVE YOU TWO EXAMPLES. I'M A FIRST RESEARCHER
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| 00:22:49 |
GUEST, -
TO EXHAUSTIVELY MINE THE INTERNAL STAFF MEMORANDA OF THE WATERGATE SPECIAL PROSECUTION FORCE. THE STAFF LAWYERS ON THE WATERGATE SPECIAL PROSECUTORS STAFF....
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| 00:24:11 |
HOST, -
MADE AN INVESTIGATION TO GIVE HIM A
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GUEST, -
REPORT. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THAT ANNOUNCEMENT HAVING BEEN
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| 00:24:17 |
HOST, -
MEETING WITH MR. DEAN ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS DURING THIS WHOLE PERIOD OF TIME IN >>
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GUEST, -
MR. DASH, I THINK YOUR QUESTION PROVIDES AN ASSUMPTION THAT I'M NOT WILLING
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| 00:24:28 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
TO ACCEPT. IT IS PERFECTLY CONCEIVABLE IN MY MIND SO FAR AS THE INVOLVEMENT OF PERSONNEL IN THE WHITE HOUSE ARE CONCERNED THAT MR. DEAN WAS MAKING...
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IN THE WHITE HOUSE. AND I THINK THAT WAS THE CONTEXT OF THE STATEMENT OF AUGUST WHATEVER DATE IT WAS. >> IF EARN MAKING SUCH AN INVESTIGATION WOULD YOU...
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| 00:25:10 |
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THE COVER-UP. >> WELL, I DON'T DOWN DOUBT THAT FOR A
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| 00:25:14 |
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MOMENT AS I HAVE SO STATED HERE THAT THERE WAS THAT ASPECT OF IT. NOW, THE COVER-UP IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THING AND THE STATEMENT MADE BY THE PRESIDENT...
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| 00:25:27 |
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INVOLVEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE WATERGATE AFFAIR PRIOR TO THE JUNE 17
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OR AT THE JUNE 17 ACTIVITIES AND I THINK THAT WAS THE THRUST OF THE STATEMENT. >> WELL, YOU KNOW FROM WHAT MR. DEAN I THINK HAS TESTIFIED OR MAY HAVE...
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| 00:25:58 |
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YES, HE DID VEGETABLE. >> WHEN DID HE TELL YOU? >> I'M NOT QUITE CERTAIN. >> IT WAS BEFORE AUGUST 29? >> I CAN'T SAY THATTOR SURE, MR. DASH BUT HE...
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| 00:26:19 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
DEAN TELL YOU
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Unidentified Speaker, -
PERSONALLY THAT HE MADE A REPORT TO
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THE PRESIDENT IN >> NO, MR. DEAN
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DID NOT SO TELL ME. >> DID YOU
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| 00:26:27 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
EVER ASK HIM AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT
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| 00:26:30 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
CAME OUT WHETHER HE MADE SUCH A REPORT? >> YES, I DID DISCUSSED -- I'M NOT SURE THAT
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| 00:26:35 |
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I PUT IT QUITE IN THE FORM OF THAT TYPE OF QUESTION. WE DID
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| 00:26:39 |
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HAVE DISCUSSIONS OF IT. AND HE TOLD ME THAT HE OF COURSE HAD BEEN DISCUSSING THE MATTERS WITH HALDEMAN
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AND EHRLICHMAN BUT THAT HE HAD NOT
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| 00:26:48 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
SPECIFICALLY MADE A DIRECT REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT.
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| 00:26:54 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
THAT WHATEVER INFORMATION HE WAS PROVIDING WAS GOING THROUGH HALDEMAN AND EHRLICHMAN, ONE OR THE OTHER. I FORGET WHICH. >> FOR EVERYONE OF THOSE WITNESSES...
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| 00:27:24 |
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COMMITTEE, DEAN, MCGRURD, HOWARD HUNT, ALEXANDER ALEXANDER HAIG. JAMES MCCORD AND NO ONE HAD EVER BEFORE, NO RESEARCHER HAD EVER BEFORE READ THAT...
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| 00:29:03 |
HOST, -
SAY IS -- AND THIS IS NOT IN THE BOOK BUT THESE ARE CONCLUSIONS HE
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GUEST, -
REACHED IN MY RESEARCH. WOULD IT HAVE
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| 00:29:12 |
HOST, -
BEEN BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND PERHAPS THE WORLD IF THE COVER-UP HAD SUCCEEDED, THAT IS TO
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| 00:29:18 |
HOST, -
SAY THE BREAK-IN
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GUEST, -
AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS, THE FIVE WHO WERE INDICTED FOR IT PLUS HUNT AND LIDDY, HAD BEEN PERMITTED TO WALK, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN...
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| 00:33:13 |
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MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE IS ONE OF YOUR MENTORS IS DAN RATHER. EXPLAIN THAT. GUEST: FIRST I WILL EXPLAIN TO YOUR AUDIENCE THAT I'M
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GUEST, -
A REGISTERED INDEPENDENT. WHEN I TOOK THE JOB AT
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| 00:33:25 |
HOST, -
FOX NEWS NINE YEARS AGO I REGISTERED AS AN INDEPENDENT AND I'M SO REGISTERED TODAY. DAN RATHER WAS THE HERO OF MINE GROWING UP TO A LEVEL AND EXTENT...
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GUEST, -
AS A HINCKLEYESQUE PARTICULAR OR SOMEBODY HE NEEDS TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL SECURITY BUT I HAVE A BULLETIN BOARD OF HIS CLIPPINGS WHEN WAS 13. IT IS THAT...
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HOST, -
BE RELEVANT FOR WHAT REASON? GUEST: HE WAS AN AIDE TO PRESIDENT
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GUEST, -
NIXON PREDATING THE PRESIDENCY AND WORKED VERY CLOSELY
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| 00:35:33 |
HOST, -
WITH NIXON. HE HAS NEVER WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT WATERGATE OR HIS EXPERIENCES. HE DID SERVE PRISON TIME FOR
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GUEST, -
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HOST, -
OVERS OVER OFFENSES UNRELATED TO THE BREAK-IN. THE REASON THE FOLKS ARE CHOSEN IS THAT YOU
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GUEST, -
HAVE BOTH PEOPLE WHO HAVE WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY ABOUT NIXON LIKE RICHARD REEVES, A HISTORIAN. SOMEONE WHO KNEW NIXON WELL LIKE DWIGHT CHAPIN, SOMEBODY...
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| 00:36:36 |
HOST, -
WHEN HIS NOVEL CAME OUT CLEARLY HE HAS
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GUEST, -
BEEN USING THEM TO CONTINUE HIS OBSERVATION. THERE'S A BLURB OBJECT THE BACK OF "THE MAN IN FULL" WHICH I THINK IT SAYS NO REPORTER HAS GOTTEN MORE OF...
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| 00:37:22 |
HOST, -
BEFORE THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN AND THEY HAD BEEN 2 1/2 YEARS INTO THEIR PRESIDENCY. LET'S LISTEN TO IT AND I WILL GET YOUR REACTION TO IT.
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GUEST, -
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HOST, -
HOST: SO, WHAT IS THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND THAT? WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT GUEST: WELL, ULTIMATELY NIXON AND MITCHELL DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO...
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| 00:39:28 |
HOST, -
THE ORIGINAL OF AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM. THIS WAS A STUDY THAT HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED
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| 00:39:33 |
GUEST, -
BY THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, THE L.B.J. ADMINISTRATION BUT WHICH "NEW YORK TIMES" GOT ACCESS THROUGH THE LEAKER, DANIEL AELLSBERG WHO WAS PUBLISHING...
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| 00:42:27 |
HOST, -
GOING BACK TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WHERE THEY UNVEILED HI PORTRAIT AND IT STRUCK ME AS WHY WOULD YOU HAVE IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WHERE OUR LAWS...
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| 00:43:12 |
GUEST, -
HIS TIME AS ATTORNEY GENERAL. SO, THERE IS, AS FAR AS MITCHELL'S SERVICE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES GOES, IT WAS WHOLLY HONORABLE. HOST:...
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| 00:43:44 |
HOST, -
LEFT PRISON THE "NEW YORK TIMES"
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| 00:43:46 |
GUEST, -
WAS REPORTING ABOUT AN UPRISING IN TEHRAN IN SUPPORT OF THE AYATOLLAH CO-MAINTAINY. VERY DIFFERENT TIME THAN EVEN WHEN MITCHELL LEFT OFFICE IN 1972....
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| 00:45:48 |
HOST, -
AT HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. WHAT IS THE
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| 00:45:51 |
GUEST, -
STORY THERE ABOUT JOHN MITCHELL AS A CONSULTANT USING MONEY AND THE CAMPAIGN OR GETTING FAVORS OUT OF DEB ARE GORE-DEAN? >> WELL, MARY GORE-DEAN'S...
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TO THIS DAY. MITCHELL, WHILE SERVING AS CONSULTANT FOR VARIOUS BUSINESS CONCERNS, STARTED TO DO BUSINESS WITH DEVELOPERS WHO HAD BUSINESS BEFORE THE...
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| 00:46:22 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
HIGH RANKING OFFICIAL. ULTIMATELY THERE ENSUED A LARGE SCANDAL INVOLVING HUD WHICH ACHIEVED THE STATUS OF GETTING ITS OWN SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. AND DEBBY...
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| 00:48:18 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
OFFICIAL. THE QUESTION ABOUT HOW JOHN MITCHELL MET MARTHA MITCHELL IS SHROUDED IN MISERY. EVERYONE I INTERVIEWED HAD A DIFFERENT STORY FOR IT. IN FACT,...
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HOST, -
KNOWN, AGAIN, FOR RATHER SURPRISING REASONS, GIVEN HOW IMPORTANT A GUY THIS WAS, HOW IMPORTANTENIMPORTANT AN
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GUEST, -
ACTOR ON THE AMERICAN SCENE NOBODY HAD WRITTEN HIS BIOGRAPHY. SO I DON'T THINK ANYONE HAD FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES BEFORE. HOST: HOW LONG WAS HE A LAW...
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| 00:50:06 |
HOST, -
INK, THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTS. AND NIXON RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN ANYONE
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GUEST, -
68. SO, REALLY THEY ONLY SERVED AS PARTNERS TOGETHER FOR ABOUT A YEAR DURING WHICH TIME NIXON WAS LARGELY ASSEMBLING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HIS 1968...
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| 00:50:44 |
HOST, -
THE BOOK? HOST: THE SECOND QUESTION. IF YOU COULD GO BACK
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HOST, -
IN THE PROCESS
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GUEST, -
OF YOUR RESEARCH WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW FROM HADIM? . I SUPPOSE I WOULD WANT TO
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| 00:50:56 |
HOST, -
KNOW
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HOST, -
WHY MITCHELL CONTINUED TO DISPLAY SUCH EXTRAORDINARY LOYALTY TO NIXON EVEN AFTER THE TAPES
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| 00:51:04 |
GUEST, -
WERE DISCLOSED AND SHOWED
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| 00:51:06 |
HOST, -
HOW CYNICALLY NIXON HAD BETRAYED MITCHELL. HOST: YOU SAY THAT HE WAS THE TOP MUNICIPAL BOND LAWYER IN THE UNITED STATES. GUEST: THAT'S RIGHT. HOST:...
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HOST, -
OTHERS OTHERS' MONEY. HE HAD A WILL BUT IT WAS CONTESTED AMONGST I BELIEVE THE DAUGHTERS FROM DIFFERENT
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GUEST, -
MARRIAGES. HOST: AND YOU
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| 00:51:38 |
HOST, -
ALSO TALK ABOUT WHEN HE DIVORCED HIS FIRST WIFE HE GAVE HER 35% OF HIS EARNINGS FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE? GUEST: THE DIVORCE TERMS FOR MR. MITCHELL'S...
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| 00:51:58 |
HOST, -
M MITCHELL IT EMERGED THAT THE TERMS HAD BEEN SO SINGULARLY GENEROUS TO PROVIDE HIM
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| 00:52:07 |
GUEST, -
TO MARRY MARTHA QUICKLY. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT MARTHA MITCHELL WAS PREGNANT WHEN MITCHELL MARRIED HER. AND THERE WAS ALSO EVIDENCE THAT J. EDGAR...
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| 00:52:49 |
HOST, -
LADY HAD PROBABLY HER EARLY 60'S AT THIS POINT. SHE LIVES IN FLORIDA. I THINK SHE
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| 00:52:56 |
GUEST, -
TEACH ENGLISH. A
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| 00:52:57 |
HOST, -
PROFFER. VERY CHARMING, BRIGHT LADY. I
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| 00:53:00 |
GUEST, -
REGRET TO SAY THAT IN
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| 00:53:02 |
HOST, -
MY VERY FIRST SESSION OF -- FIRST FEW SESSIONS OF INTERVIEWS WITH HER IN 1992
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| 00:53:08 |
GUEST, -
I, BEING 23 AT THE TIME AND A NOVICE AT INTERVIEWING AND PROCESS OF WRITING A BIOGRAPHY, ASKED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS THAT UPSET HER AND WE SPENT ABOUT...
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| 00:54:56 |
HOST, -
WRITTEN NUMEROUS BUYING PHYSICAL AND THE TITLE IS "SHOOT THE WIDOW." AND THAT IS HUMOROUS AND THE IDEA IS THAT YOU SHOULD FIRST FIND A WAY TO CIRCUMVENT...
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| 00:55:10 |
GUEST, -
SUBJECT'S LEGACY SOMEHOW. I WOULDN'T ADVISE SHOOTING ANY WIDOWS BUT I WOULD GIVE THE SAME ADVICE THAT I QUOTED FROM ISAACSON, WHICH IS MEMORIES PLUS...
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| 00:56:09 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
BUSES, TRAINS, PLANES AND
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| 00:56:11 |
Unidentified Speaker, -
I'M ALSO I SHOULD SAY I'M INDEBTED TO THE COMPOSER WHOSE MUSIC WHOSE UNIQUELY REPETITIVE AND SINISTER AND INSIDIOUS MUSIC WAS THE PERFECT THING TO...
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| 00:56:49 |
HOST, -
BE PRESIDENT. THAT PROBABLY HAD THE BLOOD-LETTING ENDED BY THE MIDDLE OF 1973
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| 00:56:56 |
GUEST, -
HE WOULD HAVE LEARN HIS LESSON PRETTY WELL AND SUBSEQUENT EVENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT WE WERE BETTER OFF WITH NIXON AS PRESIDENT THAN WE
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| 00:57:04 |
HOST, -
WERE WITHOUT
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| 00:57:08 |
GUEST, -
HIM. HOST: YOU START BY SUGGESTING JOHN MITCHELL TOLD A STORY ABOUT HIS LIFE THAT WAS TOTALLY UNTRUE. TELL ONE OF THOSE STORIES AND WHY WOULD YOU BELIEVE...
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| 00:57:32 |
HOST, -
DAY." AND HE PROCEEDED TO TELL STORIES THAT SURVIVED IN THE LITERATURE ABOUT HIM THAT WERE COMPLETELY UN TRUE UNTRUE, HE AND HIS BROTHER HAD HEAVED...
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| 00:57:42 |
GUEST, -
FIRE WHEN THEIR SCHOOL BURNED DOWN. OR THAT THEY HAD BURNED DOWN THEIR WHOLE HOUSE WITH SPARKLERS DURING A FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION. THIS WOULD HAVE...
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| 00:59:04 |
HOST, -
REPORTER COULD DO RELATED TO NIXON, WATERGATE,
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| 00:59:08 |
GUEST, -
SURROUNDING MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF. WATERGATE SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THE CIVIL WAR AS THIS GREAT
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| 00:59:15 |
HOST, -
EVENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH TONS OF RICH CHARACTERS EACH OF THEM DESERVES THEIR OWN BIOGRAPHY. WE
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| 00:59:22 |
GUEST, -
HAVE BOOKSHELVES OF LITERATURE ABOUT EACH MINOR GENERAL IN THE CIVIL WAR. SOMEBODY SHOULD DO A GOD BIOGRAPHY OF HALDEMAN OR HIM AND EHRLICHMAN. SOMEBODY...
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HOST, -
CAPTIONING INSTITUTE] >>
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| 01:00:21 |
GUEST, -
FEBRUARY MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BI BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. THERE IS A GREAT RESOURCE.
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