John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell was United States Attorney General.
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- The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.
- It's good to be back in Alabama.
- Said on arriving in Alabama to begin serving a sentence in the federal prison for obstruction of justice.
- All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard.
- Quoted by Katharine Graham, Personal History (1997) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/graham.htm