editor of the paper. bradley said to us, you know there has never been a story like this ever before. you re about to say that the attorney the former attorney general of the united states, the highest law enforcement officer in the country is a crook. and we said yeah. but we re right. the washington post says it has been told that while mitchell was attorney general, he controlled a secret republican party fund used to finance clandestine political espionage operations. mitchell denied the allegations today with some intensity. and so mitchell and some of the others at the committee for the reelection of the president came up with the idea that they could put the washington post out of business. one day a subpoena server came to the washington post. i got a call from downstairs, and i said don t let him upstairs to the newsroom. just hold him there. and i called bradlee, and i said there is a subpoena server there for our note. and he said let me call kcathy
we started at the bottom. we learned from this bookkeeper who worked at the committee for the reelection of the president that there had been a secret fund that paid for undercover operations against the democrats. there were five people who controlled the funds, and finally we get to the point where we know that nixon s campaign manager john mitchell, former attorney general of the united states, had been among those five people who controlled the secret funds. so we decided we re going do a story on this. i had this number for mitchell, and i called him, and mitchell answered the phone. and i said mr. attorney general, i have a story i d like to read to you that s in the next day s paper and get your response. i m starting to read, and i got as far as john n. mitchell, attorney general of the united states controlled a secret fund. and mitchell said jesus.
helping to create the kind of environment that now where we have economic growth, people actually are starting to add to their payroll. there are some ideas on both the republican and democrat side that allow us to potentially, for example, lower rates for small businesses on their taxes, to help spur on some growth and my hope is that both in the house and senate will see packages moving over the next several weeks to provide a jump start to start lowering the unemployment rate. . . seeing that we can accelerate that and binding agreement in those areas. there may be some priorities that both the republicans and democratic leaders have that they want to raise at this meeting. my hope is that is not going to be a rare situation. we re going to do this on a regular basis i am thankful that they have taken some time to come. i am confident if we move forward in the spirit, keeping in mind what is best for the american people, that we should pay bill we should be able to accom
furthest proposals to have a focus on the national debt and have us deal with it. i am concerned this might be short term rather than long term because we re in a recession. we need to create jobs. we need to spend. when you re in a recession, it may not be in america s long- term interest. if we do not deal with issues about tax policies that encourage savings, but i know my friends in the white house raised the issue of health care in this context, so the good news about the bills considered inñr the house and the senate is the two principal goals were to reduce the growth rate of health care costs in america while reducing the budget costs so we wereçó actually reducing health- care costs and the budgetñi. at health care costs solely in light of the federal government s budget and say we have succeeded if we can reduce the entitlement costs of the federal government. we do not look at it as to how much seniors might be asked to pay. we don t look at as to how much busi