The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate (97 page)

Wiebe, Richard, via telephone, Las Cruces, NM, September 13, 1994

Williams, Kristen Forsberg, via telephone, Washington, DC, April 23, 1995

Wilson, David G., via telephone, Washington, DC, January 6, 1995

Wilson, Malcolm, White Plains, NY, May 12, 1993

Wing, John R., Brooklyn, NY, September 27, 1997

Wolfe, Tom, New York, NY, November 4, 2004

Wooten, James, via telephone, Washington, DC, April 9, 2004

Below are citations for the White House tapes relating to the Moorer-Radford episode referenced in the chapter “Robbing the President’s Desk.” First declassified and released in October 2000, their contents were first published by the author in an article entitled “Nixon and the Chiefs,” published in the
Atlantic Monthly
in April 2002. All of these tapes are available at the National Archives’ Nixon Presidential Materials Project in College Park, Maryland. All transcripts were prepared by the author. The author acknowledges a special debt to Mountain State University’s Nixon Era Center, which provided a digitally enhanced version of the December 21, 1971, tape. The center’s Web site can be accessed at
www.nixonera.com
.

NT, Conversation No. 639–30, President Nixon, John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman, Oval office, December 21, 1971, 6:07–6:59 p.m. [HRH and JDE enter at 6:09 p.m.]

NT, Conversation No. 640–3, Nixon and Haldeman, Oval Office, December 22, 1971, 9:48–11:02 a.m.

NT, Conversation No. 640–5, Nixon, Mitchell, and Ehrlichman, Oval office, December 22, 1971, 11:03–11:33 a.m.

NT, Conversation No. 640–11, Nixon and Haldeman, Oval Office, December 22, 1971, 1:16–1:50 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 641–5, Nixon and Haldeman, Oval Office, December 23, 1971, 11:37–11:53 a.m.

NT, Conversation No. 641–10, Nixon and Haldeman, Oval Office, December 23, 1971, 12:27–1:15 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 310–19, Nixon, Haldeman, and Robert Finch, Executive Office Building, December 23, 1971, 3:00–4:40 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 17–28, Nixon and Alexander Haig, White House Telephone, December 24, 1971, 5:01–5:08 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 17–37, Nixon and Mitchell, White House Telephone, December 24, 1971, 5:33–5:39 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 17–55, Nixon and Mitchell, White House Telephone, December 24, 1971, 11:17–11:22 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 17–91, Nixon and Melvin Laird, White House Telephone, December 25, 1971, 11:45–11:46 a.m.

NT, Conversation No. 17–102, Nixon and Thomas Moorer, White House Telephone, December 26, 1971, 12:12–12:16 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 310–30, Nixon and Haig, Executive Office Building, December 26, 1971, 12:16–1:43 p.m.

NT, Conversation No. 17–132, Nixon and Henry Kissinger, White House Telephone, January 1, 1972, 2:43–3:56 p.m.

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Excerpts from MARTHA: THE LIFE OF MARTHA MITCHELL by Winzola McLendon, copyright © 1979 by Winzola McLendon. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

Excerpts from MAXINE CHESHIRE: REPORTER by Maxine Cheshire with John Greenya. Copyright © 1978 by M & M, Inc., and John Greenya. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

The author gratefully acknowledges the permission granted by author Len Colodny for the use of quotations from his numerous interviews with John Mitchell and other relevant individuals, dated 1985–1990.

The author gratefully acknowledges the permission granted by Robert Gettlin for the use of his interview with John Mitchell dated May 1985.

The author gratefully acknowledges the permission granted by historian Stanley Kutler for the use of quotations from his two interviews with John Mitchell, dated February and April 1988.

The author gratefully acknowledges the permission granted by Tom Wells for the use of interviews with relevant individuals in the 1980s.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rosen, James.

The strong man: John Mitchell and the secrets of Watergate / James Rosen.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Mitchell, John N. (John Newton), 1913–1988. 2. Attorneys general—United States—Biography. 3. Watergate Affair, 1972–1974. 4. United States–Politics and government—1969–1974. I. Title.

KF373.M5349R67 2008

973.924092—dc22

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