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Show 2 The Salt Lake Tribune. Wednesday. July 1!. 1073 itius Mitchell: Profile of the Under a Tough Hide , a Tremor And Evidence of the Shyness N bridles at criticism that his political ineptness was responsible in part for the rejection of two Nixon candidates for the L'.S Supreme Court, Clement F. Haynswortli and G. Harold Of this defeat he said stiffly: "They (Haynsworth and Carswell) weren't deficientThey were shot ontinued From Page One might think. It requires a sound knowledge of tax law, constitutional law, really every phase of law. It also state legislative procencumpasses esses, and one learns a hell of a lot about what makes the country move. C I V- . a it J - Y V J V Car-swel- l. - But it was as an administrator that Mitchell made an impact at the Justice Department, which was said by an incoming staff member to have been left an "administrative shambles" by Mitchell s predecessor, Ramsey Clark, who was philosophically a world away in his concept of the at- V V u Vr vj down torney general's job Firm, "Theres p A Associated If sou souths can't stand the heat . . . Two unidentified are escorted from the Senate Watergate Cool Reign a difference between my philosophy and Ramsey Clarks. Mitchell said. I think this is an institution for law enforcement, not social improvement." Press WtreoSoto hearing Tuesday alter collapsing from the heat. Others were also rent used Irnin caucus room. His image truth'" foie the Independent e Day recess, said he repeatedly warned Nixon about the cover-uand that he felt the President was aware of the efforts as early as last Sept Mitt hell the country s top law enforcement ofliual from January I'ltrt until he resigned March of last year to direct the campaign, testified under subpoena from the Senate committee but not under immunity. t loser Questioning p Said Mitt tic'll "It wasn't a question of telling him the truth. It was a way of not I'm sure that involving him at all knowing Kichnid Nison, the President, as 1 do. that he would just 'ower the boom in all of this matter . . . and it would come back to hull him in connection with this The witness, the 21st m the hearings .entering the sixth week, disputed minor lute aspects of the testimony of ousted House counsel John . Dean III, saying Dean has put a blanket oer activities that were happening at that lime and called it a coser-im.He cited a June 28 meeting in Washington last year that Dean said Mitchell attended Mibhell said he was in New York at the time. . . r 1 Mitchell was questioned closely about the now famous meetings he had with Job Stuart Magnjder. G. Gordon Liddy and John W' Dean III in his Justice De- - " Raising the Money He also said he had nothing to do w llh raising money for the Watergate defendants and their families and was not instrumental in getting attorney Herbert W, Kalmbach to perform the function. Mitchell was asked why he resigned as campaign director on July 1 last year. He had said at the time it was at the urging of his wife, Martha. "1 thought this was probably the most publicized resignatior that took place m this country." Mitchell said "I had some and publicized threats that if I didnt get out of politics I was going to lose my marriage. Mitchell said that even as late as last December or January, he hoped the Watergate affair would remain bottled up "because there was no necessity of scarring a President who was not involved. It wouldn't affect his election by then, but would affect his presidency In retrospect. Mitchell said, he probably should have told Nixon. But. he said, because White House personnel was maybe this would go changing and away." Dash counsel Samuel Committee asked whether Mitchell was aware of anyone else having any conversation the with the President "concerning cover-uor horror stones." p "Not m my presence." Mitchell plied. Mitchell's Opinion re- "You are not m a position to state to this commi'tee of your own knowledge whether the President knew of the break-iDash asked or cov '' n state to my knowledge he did not know, Mitchell rep'ied "It is based solely on my association with the President and not conversations on the alfirmative side of the subject matter " Former White House counsel John W Dean III. in five davs of testimony be- "1 can only Scralcliin Senator The vote was 246 to 163 in favor of an . amendment by Rep. Paul Findley, who said his provision would effectively seal off a senes of loopholes in the farm law. The decision on the Findley amendment plowed under an earlier amendment bv Rep. Bob Borland. which the House accepted that would have pegged the figure at $20,000 per crop The vote favoring the amendment was 313 to 89 . per-cro- p Wdh a few visiting women protesting milk prices, the House began its work on they weie going to sneak it thiough or whether there would be less resistance or what, I don't know to everyone around him. said one man who worked with Mitchell. Of course, he has a tendency to be blunt, but that's because he has made his vv ay in life not through the use of public relations techniques, but through his brilliance in the field of municipal bonds. Magruder, in his testimony about the third Lidtlv proposal, insisted that Mitchell "simply signed off on it in the sense of saying 'okay, let's give him a quarter of a million dollars and let's see ".hat he can come up with. Mitchell said LaRue, who was at the March 30 meeting, can back up lus version. Mitchell also contradicted as a "palpable. damnable lie Magruders sworn testimony that he was shown wiretap logs and that he had suggested earlier this year that Magruder might get executive clemency if convicted for Ins admitted . perju' v m the cover-up- Only One Boss 3!) am toed ot "We don't need this, hearing it Out Let's not discuss it am turther " 1 Q It was as clear as that Werent We Mitchell quit as campaign director on two weeks after the July 1 last year On June 30 he had Watergate break-in- . lunch with the President He said he felt by then that Magruder might be indicted, but that he did not tell the President. "There wasn't the question of lifting the tent slightly m order to get with respect to one individual or another." Mitchell said "It was keeping the lid on and no information volunteered." was As far as the Watergate concerned, that was already a public issue. It was the parties that were olv ed in-- v A In my opinion, it was jurt as deal whe'her somebodv thought as that the general farm bill amid word that the would accept a Nixon administration a en key provision compromise Gain White House Okay? Republican Leader Gerald R Ford of Michigan and Agriculture Committee Chairman W R Poage. , said they understood the administration would go along with the committee's suggested target prices for coton. wheat and feed grain such as corn if an escalator clause is deleted e F bisk, D Calif . thin told the Rep House that he' would propose suth a move during later action on amendmen's in an effort to g,a President Nixon s P backmg for this controversial concept set' mg a level of guaranteed incomes fm farmers Mitchell said in his last days as cam. paign director he apologized to the Presi-dent "for not knowing what the hell happened I should have kept a stronger hand on what these people at the committee were doing Dean, in his testimony, said there had been discussions with Haldeman and Khrhchman where it was decided Mitchell should step forward and take the blame for the cover-up- . Did you think you would become the fall guy9 Mitchell was asked. "No," he said, contrary to the stories I have read, 1 did not think ." that . In another Watergate development, the Chicago Daily News quoted former White House aide John D. Ehrliehman as telling Senate investigators that he received a $20,000 "personal loan" from Herbert W. Kalmbach was no indication when received the $20,000 unsecured loan from Kalmbach. who was then Nixon's personal lawyer, according to the newspaper Fiank Strukler Fhrhchman's lavwer. was quoted as saying he was certain the loan did not come trom Nixon campaign funds and there was nothing improper about it There matter-of-factnes- to deal with every day. partment oftiee on Jan 27 and Feb 4 last year and with Magruder. Iaddy and Frederick G l.aliue at Key Biscayne. Testimony was that Iiddy. since convicted wdh six others of conspiracy in the burglary and wuetapping, piesented elaborate political espionage plans at those meetings and that Mitchell gave hts approv al on March 3tl Mitchell said he angrily reieited a plan at the lust meeting, a dollar proposal at the second and that his reaction on the thud lor a S.itl 1100 plan that included Watugatc was There was no mistaking who was boss. Asked once if he agreed with a statement one of his subordinates had made, he replied frostily: "I really don't have the practice of subscribing to the theories of my aides. It generally works the other way around." If tu special relationship with the President inflated . ego, Mitchell did not betray it either in speech or manner. He dealt with the subject with characteristic saying of Nixon: ing one skippered by young Lt. John F. Kennedy, of whom he said: "I scarcely knew him. He was just one of the dozens of junior officers I had olunteering sure in hell vverent volunteering anything and we also were involved m a difficult senes of civil cases. We weren't volunteering anything Mitchell said he had a strong feeling Magnider would commit perjury when he appeared before a grand jury investigating Watergate but denied that Magruder rehearsed his story with Mitchell House Sets $20,000 Lid On Payments to Farmers - he would not squander time in unnec- essary conversation with his staff. "He was always eminently decent WASHINGTON To Seal Off Loopholes The House WASHINGTON (AP) Tuesday voted to set an annual ceiling of $20,000 to be paid each faimer under wheat, cotton, and feed grain piograms in a new farm bill. To others, he was basicallv a kind- Were you aware of a program to make sure none of this information wen to the grand jury? Fla on March But a perceptive few sense another man under a carefully-structureimage, a shy. emotional man who man, although so preoccupied with the efficient running of his office that Q Sen. Sam Ervin a for brief scalp scratch. stops while hearing testimony Tuesday from witness John N. Mitchell. d to the point of arrrogance, as cold and unyielding as the iceberg he has been likened to ly inquiry Mitchell was asked whethei concern ever was expressed by himself, or top White Rouse aides 11 R. Haldeman and John D Ehrlnhman as to whether the horror stories would be revealed during the campaign. "I think we all had an innate fear they would be disclosed during the campaign," Mitchell said. "I did not believe it vv as fair to the President to hav e these stories come out during the campaign long-rang- e hard-nose- d And he denied the testimony by finance chairman Maurice H. Stans that Mitchell specifically authorized payments of large sums of money to Liddy Mitchell disclosed for the first time that Liddy and fellow conspirator E. Howard Hunt go. Mrs. Beard out of Washington or New York at a time when a Senate committee was looking into lTT's underwriting of the Republican convention then planned for San Diego, Calif Mrs Beard w as a key figure m the Mitchell said he never saw the logs of wiretapped conversations and never ordered such recoids destroyed of the stolid, decision-make- On Watergate, Mitchell Claims ( ontinued from lage One the President's office and tell him the is that unimaginative Mitchell ran the department with the same crisp efficiency he had displayed in World War II as commander of a squadron of PT boats, includ Didnt Tell Nixon of the Coverup on ... philosophical the civil rights groups grounds and labor organizations brought extreme pressure: all the senaters were sensitive to the view of the news media on the subject. His cntics countered that he himself should have been politically sensitive enough to have realized from the start about the last word anyone would employ in describing John Newton Mitchell, public man. On The Outside n He arrived each day at 8. often lunched at desk on a cheese sandwich, and seldom left before 7 or 7 30 at night, usually taking home a briefcase bulging with homework which he checked and passed out to his stall' tne next morning He carefully rationed his time slutting his day into r periods, one problem and one decision per half hour He also rationed lus words, sometimes dismissing a subordinate with a nod alter hearing him out. half-hou- Tip of Iceberg To some, he seemed aloof, even In "Justice; The Crisis of Law. Order, and Freedom in America," author Richard Harris quotes a Justice Department staffer v.ho was on hand when Mitchell took over: "When you tirst meet Mitchell, he seems cold on the surface, but when you get to know him better you realize that is only the tip of the iceberg "I guess I see him once a day or more, when I go over to the White House. And during the course of the day we usually talk on the telephone several more times. In the evening he frequently calls me at home; I have a direct line from the White House switchboard lacks confidence outside his own field of law and is so fearful of betraying his real or imagined inadequacies that he keeps the world at arms length. More than one observer has detected. on occasion, a slight tremor in his hands, a condition he ascribes to a shrapnel wound he suffered in the war. and a tendency to moist palms, which can be an indication of nervousness He stood in no awe of the President. as so many aides do. He was an adv lser, not a courtier, and his prickly r career pride in Ins own surfaced on one occasion when he was being questioned by a group of prominent Republicans on his political qualifications S2tl().000-a-yea- He is not at ease in large gatherings, public speaking can be painfully difficult for him at times (he spoke only when the function of his office required it. or when the President insisted) and seems able to relax only m the company of a few close friends. "Those who know Mitchell really well, said an old Washington hand, "say he is insecure, that he hides his insecurity under a bland face, sucks, his pipe, looks wise and says nothing I'm Nixon's Equal cold "I've made more money in the practice of law than Nixon, brought more clients into the firm, can hold my own m argument with him and, as far as Im concerned. I can deal with him as an equal." stubborn man and one who lose easily. Mitchell still doesn't of importance (Tomorrow: the man behind mask and Martha.) Oil Pipeline Proposal Draws Ire - Sen WASHINGTON Tues Floyd Haskell, day proposed that od com divorce themselves panics from ownership of the trans Alaska pipeline. Alaska's two senators opposed the move (P) has got to be the greatest single delay factor suggested so far. said Sen. Ted Stevens, "This NYLON TIRES PT107 Whitewalls at no extra cost 4-PL- Y 650x13 695x14 T &for His Democratic counterpart, Gravel, questioned whether sufficient financing would be available from the public. He said that "no entrepreneur with his head screwed on "traight would touch the proposal with a pole." The Haskell proposal came during the second day of debate on legislation to remove width restrictions on the amount of land the federal government can grant a consortium of oil companies to constant the pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez Mike 825x14 825x15 855x14 855x15 900x15 e PIUS F.E.T. 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