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Mitchell opened his 2½ days of testimony forcefully. Appearing under subpoena and against his will, he presented no overall statement and fielded the initial questions of Chief Counsel Samuel Dash briskly and pointedly. As expected, Mitchell admitted sitting through three meetings, the first two as Attorney General, at which the bizarre and illegal political espionage plans of G. Gordon Liddy, then the Nixon re-election committee's chief counsel, were presented. Indignantly, Mitchell said he was "angered" and "aghast" at these plans. They were "a complete horror story" and "beyond the pale." Each time, he said, he clearly...
...asked Dash, as "Attorney General of the United States, why didn't you throw Mr. Liddy out of your office?" Responded Mitchell coolly: "Well, I think, Mr. Dash, in hindsight I not only should have thrown him out of the office, I should have thrown him out of the window." Persisted Dash: "Well, since you did neither [laughter], why didn't you at least recommend that Mr. Liddy be fired?" Again Mitchell agreed: "Well, in hindsight, I probably should have done that...
...that was only the first of what looked like several clear contradictions between Mitchell's previous and present sworn testimony. It was on the last day of his hearings that Counsel Dash, who had questioned Mitchell rather gently on the opening day, displayed his most cutting interrogation so far in the hearings. Just as Mitchell must have thought that the rough quizzing was all behind him, Dash in rapid-fire order raised four apparent Mitchell falsehoods...
...agent that he had no knowledge of his own about the Watergate break-in-again contradicting what he has told the Ervin committee. Mitchell contended last week that the topic had never come up in this telephone interview and that the FBI records "are absolutely wrong" in showing, as Dash contended, that...
Mommy pops a Dexamyl and to her firstborn, whom she is diapering, explains that she must dash to keep an appointment with her psychiatrist, who is trying to determine why she is cuckoo...