Talk:John N. Mitchell

Untitled
This entry looks suspiciously like a cut-and-paste from something else. Can someone verify this?
 * It passes the google test.Vicki Rosenzweig

external link
the information below the external link divider is mostly wikipedia, and the rest is wikiquote. is the divider appropriate? pauli 02:40, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Was he ever disbarred?
Was John Mitchell ever disbarred, even temporarilly? If so, and it can be verified, add that information to the article and include the article in Category:Disbarred American lawyers Dugwiki 16:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Part of my question too: the article is currently "Watergate happened, then he died." Manys (talk) 21:22, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * There is now a section on his disbarment. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:43, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Did he serve? How long?
What happened AFTER the sentencing? Did he serve? How long? (Serkul 03:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC))
 * His sentence is now covered in the article. After his release from prison, he faded from view. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 08:00, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Information on Mitchell's Prison Time
According to http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mitchell.htm: "he served 19 months of a 2 1/2-to-8 year prison sentence."

From article on Mitchell's death (By Lawrence Meyer,Washington Post, Thursday, November 10, 1988, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/mitchobit.htm): "For his part in the cover-up conspiracy and his failure to tell the truth about it under oath, Mitchell was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica later reduced Mitchell's sentence to one to four years. Mitchell served 19 months at the minimum-security institution at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and was freed on parole Jan. 20, 1979. Mitchell was paroled from Maxwell, among other reasons, because his health was failing." Btm1 13:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)BTM1 4/20/2007

Sources and cites needed
This article is very well-written, but needs some sources cited. I will try to add some soon, but have added the Unreferenced tag until then. Ukulele 18:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

The last line mentions his second wife, Martha. Where is the first wife mentioned? Perhaps a section for personal life could be created? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.80.215.67 (talk) 14:31, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

War record
This seems to be junk – all of it. Consult James Rosen's new biography, The Strong Man, and the review of the same in the Wall Street Journal of 24–25 May 2008.

Birth date
Apparently the September 5 date quoted from is contradicted by the American National Biography, the Washington Post, and The Guardian, which state September 15. Encyclopedia Britannica changed from September 5 to September 15 too, see Errors_in_the_Encyclopædia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia. Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Direct quote from article
The section on Mitchell's efforts to achieve desegregation is a direct quote from the referenced article, is not neutral POV and not appropriate for an encyclopedia as it claims that he was responsible for the change without any evidence to back that up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlanK (talk • contribs) 13:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Dirty tricks
I removed a citation needed tag from the Dirty tricks section because the source referenced at the end has that material verbatim. There should be some additional RS's that discuss this episode. I'm researching the American Nazi Party and might find something. I think that this section can expanded. 47.137.184.131 (talk) 08:18, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

First wife?
Only his second wife is mentioned, both in the article and the factbox. Why nothing about the first wife? Valetude (talk) 21:22, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
 * His first wife isn't very well known, and never did anything noteworthy. I'm not surprised she's not mentioned. His second wife was a controversial public figure. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:57, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Reference to his meetings with the President about the cover-up.
The paragraph about what is revealed in the tape recordings ends with a sentence about meeting with the President three times to cover up White House involvement in the cover up, but it's not supported by the reference from the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The only thing the reference says about Watergate is this:

"Mitchell resigned as head of the Committee for the Reelection of the President in July 1972, shortly after the arrest of several men discovered burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. In 1974 he was indicted on charges that he had conspired to plan the break-in and that he had obstructed justice and perjured himself during the subsequent cover-up of the affair. He was convicted in 1975 and sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison; he entered prison in 1977 and was released on parole in 1979."

There's nothing here about the three meetings with Nixon. This reference may have been confused with another reference. Anyone who knows a better source for this, please correct it. (The information looks correct.) MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:55, 3 January 2023 (UTC)