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The Strong Man.(The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate)(Brief article)(Book review)

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After Richard Nixon lost the gubernatorial race in California, in 1962, he moved to New York to practice law and fell in with John Mitchell, a self-assured municipal-bond lawyer, who went on to run Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign and serve as Attorney General. Mitchell's fame, such as it was, sprang from Watergate; in 1975, he went to prison for his role in the cover-up, and never broke his silence about the affair. Rosen, a correspondent for Fox News, believes that Mitchell's story has not been properly told. He ...

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