as far as john n. mitchell, attorney general of the united states, controlled a secret fund. and mitchell said, jesus. and then i went a few more words into the first paragraph, and mitchell said, jesus. and then i got to the end of the first paragraph, by which time the drift of the story was unmistakable. and mitchell said, jesus christ, all that crap, you re putting it in the paper. if you print that, katharine graham, publisher of the washington post, is going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer. and when this campaign is over, we re going do a little story on you two boys, and hung up the phone. and i have to say, the most chilling moment i ve ever experienced as a reporter. because the threat was real. the brazenness that they could say those things about us, we ll do a little story on you and about mrs. graham spoke
and then i went a few more words into the first paragraph, and mitchell said, jesus. and then i got to the end of the first paragraph, by which time the drift of the story was unmistakable. and mitchell said jesus christ, all that crap, you re putting it in the paper. if you print that katherine graham is going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer. and when this campaign is over, we re going do a little story on you two boys, and hung up the phone. i have to say, it is the most chilling story i ve ever experienced as a reporter, because the threat was real. the brazenness that they could say those things about us, we ll do a little story on you and about mrs. graham spoke volumes about their perception of their own dominance and power. i called ben bradley, the
the democrats and i had a known number for mitchell and called him that night and got him on the phone and read the story to him and he said to me, jesus christ, all that crap, if you put that in the paper i m going to have katherine graham, the publisher of the washington post, she s going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer, jesus, he said, and then he said and when this campaign is over we re going to do a story on youtube, boys, and he hung up the phone. it was not an idle kind of threat. they went after. nixon, john mitchell and others they went after the washington post, tried to take away the television licenses of the paper, the economic lifeblood of the paperance and their object was to make the conduct of the press the issue in watergate rather than the conduct of the president and his men. just as donald trump has done through his presidency and even afterwards. and underpinning that, of