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'dtf iF ''''UV' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday November Watergate kingpin has heart attack WASHINGTON (UPI) -FAttorney General John Mitchell dead of a heart attack at 75 wanted to be "a fat and views about Washington tics and politicians Wall Street proaperous lawyer" but wound up a disbarred common criminal jailed in President Nixon’s Watergate scandal Mitchell died Wednesday at 6:27 pm EST about an hour after he was admitted to George Washington University Medical Center in cardiac arrest according to hospital spokeswoman Dominiti Claudia Mitchell was walking home in the fashionable Georgetown section of the nation's capital when he collapsed on the street A passerby Robert Hilger of Boston administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation until an ambulance arrived A Washington television station reported Wednesday night that a breakdown in radio communications prevented the medics treating Mitchell from letting the hospital know they were on the way WUSA-Tsaid it took four calls before the medics were able to get through to the hospital and by that time the V ambulance was at the emergency room Such communication difficulties have been a recurring problem WUSA noted but it was not known whether the incident contributed to Mitchell’s death Mitchell became the first attorney general ever to serve a prison term — for Watergate crime he said he never committed as a top adviser to Richard Nixon The pipe-smokin- Re- g publican was found to be the man who pulled the strings that led to the June 17 1972 break-i- n at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex He then participated in the Bysantine cover-u- p that tried to distance the Oval Office from the burglars During the next two years the scandal exploded with revelations from legal and congressional investigations In the end 25 defendants were jailed for Watergate crimes Nixon' resigned m disgrace Aug 9 1971 and was pardoned one month later by President Gerald Ford Mrs poli- Mitchell became famous tor a series of late-night telephone calls to report-i-n which she dropped hints abent a much-largWatergate scandal than was known at the time Nixon aides tried to discredit her comments by saying she was drunk At first her statements seemed to amuse her husband and Nixon but she later publicly accused her husband of covering up Olegalites for the president She demanded he leave politics and “all those dirty things that go on" Even after they divorced Mrs Mitchell insisted until her death in 1971 that her husband was framed in the Watergate scandal and Nixon should have accepted more of the blame Born in Detroit Sept 15 1911 Mitchell was graduated from John Mitchell Fordham University and its law school He became sc- Mitchell convicted of con- quainted with Nixon when they spiracy obstruction of justice worked as partners in the New and perjury was sentenced to York legal firm of Mudge two to eight years in prison by Rose Guthrie Alexander and Judge John Sirica It was MitchelL He became Nixon's camupheld on appeal and he arrived in June 1677 at the paign manager in 1968 and federal minimum security fa- woriced to build a coalition of cility in Montgomery Ala He Southern and Western states was released 16 months later through a “law and order" Jan 19 1679 conservative appeal Mitchell spent his final years During the campaign he said in the city of his downfall as a he would never accept a Cabconsultant for Global Research inet position if Nixon were Inc a public policy institute elected After he was named ro- - attorney general he said he did Former Watergate secutor Jim Neal said not want the job and would only nesday in Nashville Tenn stay two years “I have everything I want" that he was saddened by Mitchell’s death he told reporters “I’m a fit “John Mitchell committed an and prosperous Wall Street offense and I prosecuted him" lawyer which is just what I’ve Neal said "Rut he was a very always wanted to be” Nevertheless mice at the pleasant humfcn being He was not bitter about what happened Justice Department Mitchell to him There was no stayed until 1972 when he left bitterness between John Mit- to become Nixon's chell and me" ipaicn manager His The White House issued a famous line during Nixon's statement Wednesday night early tenure was: “Watch what saying “President and Mrs we do not what we say” After the Watergate break-i-n Reagan are deeply saddened news Mitchell’s of the John 1972 Mitchell denied the in by death and extend their sympa- burglars had any connection with!the Committee to thy and prayers to his family" he had Among tne surviving family the President -is his second wife Maryf and with the-1 two daughters break-i- n and reor cover-u-p Mitchell's first' wife Martha peated that claim before FBI found herself in the limelight agents grand jurors report-during her husband’s stay in ers legislators and a District office because of her outspoken of Columbia jury er 12 NOON TO 12 on Re-Ele- ct He-sai- -- LUGGAGE SAVE 0VEC M3cw CARGO BACS '’Wbin&FW kbgmio'45 ONBOARD BAG wmio'45 AN tivnif ik ! ein I fvi) I) St V FEDERAL LAND BANK ASSOCIATION OF UTAH Utah Production Credit association 380 Ufa 920 North 2 Orem UT (801) 226-402- - 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