| John Mitchell
and Lawyers, New York City, 1974 - Nixon's Attorney General John
Mitchell had been indicted in the Watergate scandal and was happy
to be acquitted in his first trial. His lawyers kept saying, "I
knew you could do it, I knew you could do it.," and they kept
pouring themselves glasses of Scotch. There was something sad about
it all. And yet Mitchell was one of the few who had never badmouthed
his boss. That says something about him. I stayed until the other
press had left. When the men heard I was from Scotland, they raised
their glasses and sang songs by Scottish vaudevillian Harry Lauder. |
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