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Show DESERET A JULY 25, 1973 NEWS, WEDNESDAY, 3 'Martha: The Mouth That Roared' DO-I- T shining light in a city of blown fuses The tampaign rolled another, and the Fart 3 on. from one By Charles Ashman and Sheldon Engelmayer The story of Martha .Mitchell cannot be separated from the Second Coming of Richard Nixon.. Without it, the Mouth That Roared at least as far us ..light never have been an adonng. amused and frequently startled public is concerned After losing the Presidency to John F. Kennedy in lfKIO and the governorship of Califor-- . ma two years later. Richard Milhous Nixon announced his retirement from politics You won t have Nixon to kick areund anymore." he told a largeh hostile press But then came Pepsi Cola. John Mitchell and the Return of Richard Ni.xon. Nixon's Pepsi connection began while lie was still vice president of the United States He met Donald McIntosh Kendall, the super soda pop peddler and presi- dent of Pepsi Cola International. Ltd., at a U.S. embassy reception in Moscow m 1939 The two became fnends. and after his defeat m California. Nixon accepted Kendall's offer to become a roving ambassador for . Pepsi Cola. He began traveling the world ' seeking to expand the sphere of Pepsi's uif j- enee . Kendall also did some and got Ni.xon a partnership in a prestigious New ' York law firm: Mudge, Rose. Mexander and Buthne. Nixon's name went ahead of all the others. Then, in 1967. the firm gained a new purt- ner. John Mitchell, of the firm ut Caldwell. Trimble and Mitchell, had gained national began making .eadway A few weeks before the GOP opened in Miami Beach Richard Nixon overtook New York's Gov Nelson Rockefeller as the frontrunner A p ilitieal miracle was in the making and Marth's mate was on top of it all - . a specialist m municipal and state financing Now he was to be the last name m the giant firm of Nixon. Mudge. Rose. stature as Gu'hne. Alexander and Mitchell Nixon was quickly impressed with the man who was Martha's mate and thev became good fnends Despite his bitter 1972 goudby to the press and ms 11001 farewell" from the world of politics. Richard Nixon had never really given up the idea of one day becoming President of the United States By 19bX Nixon was ready to try again He had spent the intervening years mending and rebuilding his political fences around tli country follow mg Sen. Barry Goldwater s diastrous defeat at the hands of the man from Texa. Lyndon B Johnson After two of his campaign managers quit on him. Nixon turned to the apolitical attorney he had know for but a year. John Mitchell accepted Mitchell put together an efficient. statf Meanwhile. Martha contented herself with commuting between their New York apartment and home m Rye. N.Y. She was content, too. to keep up her contacts with the matoriis of Republican suburbia n card-playin- g IS the sun. the better we may eventually be able to e it as an energy source on earth." Garriott amphasies "Eventually it could power street lights, power light bulbs in our homes and even could be converted and used as fuel in our autos u-- Frank Macomber Does the absence of gravity improve the casting and other industrial processes so sharply that space-born- e factories someday might be feasible' is II scheduled for launch at 5. OS a ni Skylab odyssey designed (MDT) Saturday, to begin a to find the answers to these and countless other questions still obscured by the mysterious black veils in the void beyond the earth's atmosphere A veteran and two rookie spacemen will be aboard Skylab II when it pushes off from Cape Kenneunmanned orbital dy. Fla. its target the workshop spinning around t'le earth 270 miles high They are Navy Capt. Alan L. Bean. Marine Maj. Jack Robert Lousma and Owen K. Garriott. a civilian scientist. Bean. 41, walked on the moon during Apollo 12 with Charles (Pete) Conrad, also commander of the yet eventually successful Skylab I mission which ended last June 22. of metals d g o Garriott. 42. will be the first physicist to fly m space on a U.S. mission. The author of more than 25 papers and a book on ionosphere physics, he will operate the solar telescopes on the spacecralt's Apollo Telescope Mount m the continuing search for the secret of the sun's endless outpouring of energy While Skylab I's photographs of the sun re'ealed new details of its structure, "the more we know about first-bor- -- 7 - 7 -' -- 7- - -- 7 7; - This infuriated Martha's more. Countered Clyde angrily. and I boiled Theres no damn Manhattan island " Martha, for her part suddenly decided but -- he was time to reconcile with her son could not find him anywhere. So -- he turned to the Washington press corps for help Helen Thomas of United Press International succeeded in locating the boy in Vietnam and a reconciliation followed For the part Miss Thomas and the press corps played in reuniting mother and son. Martha was eternally grateful From that day forward, the press corps, was to be her one source of comfort: the member- - ot the press her closet friends 7 7 7 7 7! ' 7 - 7 ", ) ; -- 7 ' But Martha was dlferent She -- poke her mind whenever she felt tike it (usually at about 2 a.m ) and without mincing words, either. She was the one shining light m a city of blown fuses Martha came to the nation's capital, she ays. with one intention, to serve my government and help my husband I had lo g've up Martha to become the attorney general s wile " -- Cuban left, was included in the revolutionary-counci- He was a romantic spy who ran about in a preposterous red wig, committing bur- glanes, conspiring to wiretap and engaging in intrigue. When he was caught, he al- legedly tried to blackmail the White House for $1 million to keep his mouth shut Several large cash payments were delivered to him. But in- money sead of sharing y-'i- . with his fellow defendants, he allegedly kept most of it himself. Prosecutors believe he still has more than $100,000 stashed away Yet five months afterward, surrounded by the wreckage of Watergate. Hunt was still telling friends: I've spent a lifetime serving my country and. in a sense. I'm still serv" V ing it Earlier in Uruguay, as his tour of duty was coming to an end, he promised that countrys president several U.S helicopters if el Presidente would uitercede to keep turn in Montevideo. The ploy failed and the episode later kept him from a desirable post in Spain a burglar. Hunt attempted to reconnoitre the WaterAs - She had a mission to accomplish and nothing was going to stand in her way. certamh not propriety or quietude E. Howard Hunt .night in closet . . . gate and slipped into a dming room. He found he couldn't open a connecting door without alarming a guard. So he spent the night in 3 closet, waiting to escape in the anof the daytime onymity crowd Yet astourdingly, this neurotic pair, Liddy and Hunt, were brought into the White House where they were permitted to implement their wild schemes. -c Light from darkness Last year we bought a used refrigerator from a furniture store. When we got it we noticed the interior light was not working. We mentioned it and they said they would send someone out to fix it. It's been all this time and they have never come. Not even when we threatened to withhold the last payment. I have given up all hope. Mrs. D.K.D., Bountiful. Hope has been restored. ilderment at your problem, He called us back and said called to corroborate this and letters Two The manager expressed bewsaid hed investigate A once. you now had the light You to thank us and check sent an order to Miller Stockman in Denver, and despite several letters I have never had any acknowledgement. I sent them a check for S20.8S. It has In December I cleared the bank. Can you help? L.O.R., Neola. It took two letters from us to get you an answer They said they had sent a refund check and regret any How area so Ions voted on issues Compiled by Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON Following are votes of area mejfj; hers of Congress on major issues dunng the week ending ' Julv 20 Senate - 1 APPROVES ALASKA PIPELINE (S 10S1) Proce- a dural motion affirming vote to construct a pipeline and to bar further court review of environmental with Vffce President aspects of the project Adopted D Agnew casting the deciding vote- R July 17. A vea" was a vote supporting the Presidents position. Yea: Bennett. Utah .7 trans-Alask- anti-Castr- o G. Gordon Liddy . . postured with guns oven read that blue jay on I it planners behind the Bay of Pigs, although he withdrev' from the in after protest operation Manolo Ray. a leader of the fan-tasie- Martha's ornered. Martha acknowledged that -- lie did indeed have a son. named for a blue lay that lumped on my hsopital window He was one of the While the ragtag troops were training in Guatemala. Hunt sought to use them to defend the Guatelmalan president against an uprising. He was overruled by Washington, which thought they should fight one revolution at a time. money doubled-padde- -- n well in back apparently, but they have new the sofa at no charge and will do the same f r your love seat, if you wish They imply you may have the more form and primp style" than some people and that therefore, you can exchange your pieces for a different style There would be a stocking and ucharge, though. Better look at the newly padded couch first If you can't live with it. then do some wheeling and dealing on exchange Good luck No ( l While Liddy acted out his daydreams by posturing with guns and threatening those who got in his way, Hunt s found an outlet for his in the pages of his 45 obscure novels. He went by many names both as a spy and a novelist. 1 d Much of his past a wrapped in the secrecy that surrounds all former CIA men. But this much is known: We have WASHINGTON the biabout written already zarre behavior of White House burglar G. Gordon Liddy. His partner in crime, E. Howard Hunt, is equally strange. The two men who tried to steal psychological data abou Dan-- ' lei Ellsberg seem more in need of psychological study themselves -- bought some furniture from a S.L. store, a couch in particular. The couch has sagged after 30 days use. We have turned it in. They have refused to do anything We want our money back. Can you do something? R.P., Bountiful. d But Jay was not to remain a secret tor very long. A tew months later, reporters covering the administration discovered Martha's first marriage. They were surall. a son is something every After prised mother should be proud enough ot to at least mention m a press biography There was no Hunt, Liddy acted out fantasies - Chance for dealing stand m the hadow of the Capitol, the official presidential party looked on as the tiaditional parade passed by on that stand stood Martha Mitchell, wife of the new attorney in the the thousands Among parade marched Jay Jennings. Marthas irom her marriage to Clyde Jennings Mother Martha made no elfort to get together "Jay never even got to see her." the boy's father recalls bitterly Jack Anderson .'. e- On the inaugural s as would left-tur- It was shortly alter noon Jan 20. 1969. a dully day in the nation's capital, that Richard Nixon was sworn into office as the nation's 37th President photo-snappin- g vv' semi-vow- Taylorsville. Yep. The volume of traffic is sufficient lo warrant a phase m the signal system for the north separate and south legs of the intersection Ml you have to do is wait until funds can be obtained and design completed. Meanwhile, be patient and drive carefully 111 diade-matus- Lousma. 37. with a degree in aeronautical engineering. was a member of the backup crews for Apol-l9. 10 and 13 but has yet to fly in space semi-vow- el 111 Martha never joined any ol the chanty 01 social orgamzat 10115 ol that cashmere suburb But she did have many catered parties and a tended ni.iP.y other- - Is always, she was the besl show in town Whichever version is the real Martha, however. is unimportant. What is significant is the fact that Martha now sold her house Rye and joined husband John, who was about to take a $190 salary cut to become President Richard Nixon's crisis counselor " Conrad and the other Skylab I astronauts, a little shaky but otherwise suffering from nothing more than seasickness or weariness after their 28 days in space, believe future space travelers will encounter few physical problems with prolonged weightlessness, provided they exercise regularly to maintain muscle tone In addition to the prescribed Skylab II experiments mission commander Bean and his crew must conduct some experiments passed over by the Skylab I crew because of the hours they spent repairing their crippled spacecraft Skylab II astronauts will take up where Conrad left off with experiments to test man's ability to cast "pure" mdustrial objects in space. Conrad, using an electron beam, tried unsuccessfully to cast perfect ball bearings and other objects, conceding they looked when he had finished shapand balloon-like- " funny But he blamed malfuncing them in weightlessness. most of the trouble. Space sciof for the beam tioning entists still believe that with proper technology, improved industrial hardware can be produced in space The spider experiment was one of 19 conceived by U.S. high school science students and accepted by NASA for places on the Skylab series of Web Formation in Zero three missions. Called it was proposed by Judith S. Miles, ol Gravity, Lexington, Mass., a student at Lexington High School The experiment will observe the ) process of the common cross spider (arenus in the weightless environment of Skylab II Later its performance will be compared with a similar spider experiment in earth's atmosphere, to be conducted by the Research Division of the North Carolina Department of Mental Health. Raleigh. N.C. Skylab II astronauts also will continue sweeps over the globe to study the Earth's resources, searching for insect assaults on timber-landand farms and pinpointing pollution and iK effects on rivers, bays and harbor-- , with special emphasis on U.S. regions lit Ldk City. UtaW Would you check to see if a protected turn signal is scheduled for Redwood Road and 4180 South due to the housing on the west side. Traffic is becoming more of a problem every day. It is very difficult to turn left going north on Redwood Road at 3900 South. B.P.. y Others now claim that Martha was practically invisible dunng her Rye years. One prominent friend and former neighbor of the never heard Mitchell's at Apawanus says til of anyone there who really knew hei course, now that she's a celebrity, everyone -- lands around the Apavvainis bar spinning great yarns about how they knew the gal. But I really don't think anyone realized -- lie vv lithe re " Garriott Bean ' Drive carefully until law ei For the past decade she had lived unevent-tutlwith her husband, iier aged and feeble mo he, Arie Beail. and daughter Martha (born in 1961) in the large. Georgian-siyi- e Mitchell home Rye. N Y P O Bo 17'-- g-- 1 - - car low-c- Can spiders spin their webs as easily in the weightlessness oi space as they do in your atticCan three men withstand the stresses of zero gravity for two months without suffering the imprint of either physical or psychological scars? Can astronauts and scientists team up to find out enough about the sun to harness its power to light and heat buildings the world over ; y Mai is represented by the initial sound The teacher might have also added the letter j. A vowel is basically a puie sound and is made by the vocal chords, tongue and palate rather than by friction (as f) or by blocking or narrowing the the word go breath canal as the One apparently catty matron recalled those days in a 1970 interview "There -- lie was. ju.--l like the pictures you see now. with one ot dre-sand tlio-- e open-toethose and all the works shoes and a hair-dthose dimples showing and that tongue going Well, even one was asking. Who in the world is that' " Copley News Serv ice - The of s"ch words e. lltKki-- t SbJbc.v-iVtoC- (ould you help us settle a family dispute? Ever since the second grade we were taught our vowels were a, e, f, c. u and sometimes y and w.' We went through (he dictionary but couldn't find a word with just a u vowel. Could the teacher be wrong? P.D., Salt Lake tity. Martha Mitchell was heading back to Washington. DU., and the international Mine her telephone calls w ould bring her She had spent the pest HI years bmng the but highly slice vs- -I da' fill wile ol an ul S.All j.5o4 V is Mitchell the man who had never played polities before, lie was now the political wonder boy And as a reward foi President-elec- t Nixon announced on December 11 that John Newton Milchell w.e-tbe attorney general of the United State- - before Campaign 72. John and Martha Mitchell OUR READERS' ACTiON LINE Teacher not wrong; o Mysteries for Skylab . ; I) As for John Spiders, sun: By M Through a combination of events that begun with the assassination of Sen Robert F Kennedy m M's ngeles m June, and inc luded the chaos of the Democratic convention in Mayor Richard Daley's Chicago. Richard Nixon did win the 1968 election He did President of the United States , g man state to tejm Nixon-Mitche- V If you're in the cabinet, you shouldn't be invisible." Martha says. Before John took this job (as attorney general), I said. Honey, if we're going to be in government, were going to do what's tight. Were going to let the people know whos representing them "People often don't know they have a contact m government, because they haven't bothered to find out. number one: and number two. the govern. nent hasn't told their And thats the reason been run so slipshod. the government's Ashmon Permission (C) 1973 bv Churles qromed by Berkley Publishing Coro Inc D'S tnbuied by United Feature Syndicate. Inc 7 50-4- - 28-1- ' Nay: Moss. Utah; Church. Idaho. McClure. Idaho 2. VOTES TO INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE (HR 7935) Passage of the bill raising the minimum wage from $1.60 an hour lo $2.20 in 14 months and extending coverage to 7 million additional workers Passed R D '8-July 19. A nav was a vote supporting the Presi- - . dents position Yea: Moss. Utah: Church. Idaho . I Nay: Bennett, Utah; McClure. Idaho House I PASSES CURB ON PRESIDENTIAL WAR P3W- ERS (H J Res 542) Resolution requiring the President to report to Congress within 72 hours any commitment or increasing commitment of U.S combat troops abroad, requiring the President to terminate any such action within 120 days of his report unless Congress authorizes continuation and allowing Congress to direct by a concurrent resolution (not requiring presidential signature) the termination of such commitments at any time. Adopted R D July 18 A nay was a vote supporting the President's position Yea: McKay, Utah - 7 244-17- 172-6- Nay: Owens, Utah; Hansen, Idaho, Symms, Idaho DENTES FOOD STAMPS TO STRIKERS (HR 8860) Amendment to farm program extension bill prohibiting the issuance of food stamps to strikers in R D disputes Adopted July 19 Yea: Symms. Idaho - 2. 213-20- 160-2- Nay: McKay, Utah. Hansen. Idaho Did not vote: Owens, Utah EOITOR S NOTE Our Man (Harry) Jones is on vocation. 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