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...this thing cleared up and get it off the country's back and move on." Haldeman is enthusiastic about that scenario. "That's the only way to beat it now," he says. By then Nixon is in agreement, but he does not want to give Mitchell the word himself. "Mitchell??? this is going to break him up," he says. "You know it's a pain for me to do it." He delegates the job to Ehrlichman and, referring to himself in the third person, gives him these instructions: "You could say to Mitchell... that he just can't bring himself...
Later, reviewing how the whole mess began, Nixon says, "Mitchell wasn't minding the store and Magruder is a weak fellow ... and then afterwards they compounded it... basically they were trying to protect Mitchell???let's face it." Then there is this exchange...
...sooner did Colonel William Mitchell???he that was a General, one of "Pershing's men" who dashed so furiously about France in a special Renault, who tore through bursting skies to combat, who swaggered most gloriously?no sooner did he cease berating the elderly admirals of Washington than other admirals on the Pacific were faced?so the press would have it?with a most embarrassing test...
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