John Dean doesn’t recall the exact date more than 50 years ago when he first met Martha Mitchell, but he remembers his impressions. “The Attorney General [John Mitchell] used to have lunches every ...

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NEW YORK -- A documentary nominated for an Oscar this year seeks to tell a story that's largely been lost to history. Half a century ago, Martha Mitchell was among the most well known women in America ...

The first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges. As U.S.

Dispossessed of his splendor and power, his authority dissipating in fidgets and sagging in pouches, his violence thwarted, John Mitchell appeared grunting before the Ervin Committee last week like an ...

On this day, June 22, in 1977, John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. attorney general to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate coverup. Josh Shapiro says ...

WASHINGTON — A new exhibition coming to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery explores the Watergate scandal 50 years later. “Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue,” an exhibition exploring the ...

Virginia owes a personal debt to Martha Mitchell. Just after Gov. Linwood Holton — father to former Virginia education secretary Anne Holton and father-in-law to Sen. Tim Kaine — was sworn in as ...

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - A new book on the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon accuses then-White House counsel John Dean of ordering the infamous Watergate break-in in 1972, a ...