Black Community News Service, Saturday September 27, 1969\
This
issue was a critique of the Nixon-Mitchell Law enforcement policies.
Nixon nominated John Mitchell as Attorney General to clamp down on
leftist movements in 1969.
The author points out that: "The black , anyone else with thoughts of rebellion and liberation, were put on notice that there was going to be a new "chief of Politics," a new administrator and overseer of the repressive capitalist state apparatus." pp. 4
John
Newton Mitchell was the 67th Attorney General of the United States
under President Richard Nixon. Prior to that, he had been a municipal
bond lawyer, chairman of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of
Nixon's closest personal friends. Wikipedia
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After managing Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, Mitchell
was appointed head of the Department of Justice. While there, he backed
two Supreme Court nominees that were deemed unqualified, approved
unconstitutional wiretaps, prosecuted anti-war protesters and was
involved in the famed Pentagon Papers suit. It was an ignominious reign
(on its own, enough, perhaps, to merit inclusion on this list), but
Mitchell wasn't done. In 1974, he was indicted for conspiring to plan
the Watergate break-in and for perjuring himself during the ensuing
cover-up. Convicted the following year, he served 19 months in prison.
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