JOHN N. MITCHELL
(John Newton Mitchell)
The speech was in the midst of a very bitter strike where goons and strikebreakers assaulted miners and a few miners resorted to violence.
A few years later Mitchell himself was convicted and sent to prison.
Mitchell had warned that the strike was coming (see {607760}). The strike lasted 29 days and ended when the miners received a 10% wage increase. President Theodore Roosevelt mediated the dispute.
Chairman of the Board of The Washington Post. The Attorney General had attempted to suppress information linking him to the Watergate conspiracy by threatening Washington Post staff. The story was run, and Mr. Mitchell was later convicted for his crimes in connection with Watergate.
John Newton Mitchell was an American lawyer, the 67th Attorney General of the United States under President Richard Nixon, chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns, and a convicted criminal. Prior to that, he had been a municipal bond lawyer and one of Nixon's closest personal friends.
