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Thursday, July 2fi, 1372 Martha Made Some Names For Herself A Few For Her Husband, Too THE CINCINNATI F.NQL IRKR And I J.1.JW1-..- J. 1 1 rrnp Low, Low VALUE OUR tLPVALulft THANKS 7 stamps 155 TOYOU! warm, sweet and cuddly." As for reports then circulating that the attorney general had tried to muzzle her (a report that would surface again when the Waterbuggers would wander the earth), she told Life magazine's Arlene Gould: "He has never warned me what to say. When he heard that someone had called me 'Marie Antoinette' he came home and Just laughed and laughed. I thought I was doing what was right. What I did, I did by myself.

And he has enough confidence in me that I can handle my problems myself." but, had he been wavering at the time, he said, then Mrs. Mitchell's call "would have been enough" to make him decide against the Nixon appointee. Perhaps the most shaken person of all was Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee. He was preparing for a difficult reelection campaign (he would later be defeated by Republican William Emerson Brock III) and Martha's threats to his administrative assistant, William G.

Allen, didn't ease his fears. As Allen described the call: "She used language that I would characterize as somewhat strong and colorful, and she was specific about what she would do to make sure that Senator Gore was not re-elected to the (SETT WP Americans had come to their capital city to protest continued Involvement In the war. It didn't please Martha one bit and she said so. think this is Just too, too bad for the nation's capital to have anything like this," she said, adding, "I don't think the average Americans realize how desperate it is when a group of demonstrators, not peaceful demonstrators, but the very liberal Communists, move into Washington. "This place could become a fortress; you could have every building in Washington burned down.

It could be a great, great catastrophe. "And this Is the thing I worried about way before I came to Washington, knowing the liberal element In this country is so, so against us." Place Insured At this point Martha had said enough to insure her place as the most controversial Cabinet wife. But Martha had still another bombshell to unload: "As my husband has said many times, some of the liberals in this country-he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Martha had set off a political powder keg and it took her husband three days to recover before responding. At a press conference in Los Angeles, he told a CBS reporter, "If you will transpose the word 'liberal' into 'violence-prone militant I would be delighted to change them for some of the academically-inclined Marxist Communists." Martha found that she had an instant national audience and her mouth went to her head. She was determined to make her power felt whenever the need arose.

She was in Washington, after all, "to serve my government" and now she was doing Just that, no matter how much it cost: her spouse. By CHARLES ASHMAN and SHELDON ENGELMAYER United Features Syndicate John- Mitchell preferred anonymity to the public Image Ws wife had in mind fof him. So Martha decided to do it all on her own, the best way she knew how: with words! We may never know when Martha decided on her vocal course of action. But It is generally agreed that it began In a now-famous apartment complex In Washington. The place was the Watergate apartments and It was here that Martha aiid John Mitchell took a seven-room, $140,000 duplex ahd crammed it with all the furniture they had once had in their old 20-room home in Rye, N.Y.

The rental agents never suspected the ultimate irony in having the Mitchells as Watergate tenants. Fourth In A Series The Warbler of Watergate waited for the right moment to make her move. That moment came a few days after the massive antiwar rally that took place in Washington, D.Cln late 1969. IThe main demonstration had taken place on Saturday, November 15. On the following Friday, November 21, CBS Morning News aired an interview that correspondent Marya McLaughlin had with Mrs.

Martha Mitchell at the Watergate the day before. Everything Martha said sent shock waves up and down the streets Of the nation's capital ancf throughout the nation. She began by saying that her husband, the attorney general; had compared the antiwar protest to the Russian Resolution. She couldn't say for sure if he was right, however, because she herself had not seen the rally. But she took her husband's word for it nonetheless.

"I will tell you," she said to America that morning, "my made the comment to me, looking out the Justfc? Department window, it looked like the Russian Revolution going on." Over a quarter of a million It wasn't too difficult for her to find the next issue on the list. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas had resigned under intense pressure and John Mitchell had sold President Nixon on nominating, Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. to fill the void. Calls To Senators Even today the corridors of the Capitol are buzzing with tales of Martha's long and sometimes threateningphone calls to senators and their wives in support of the Haynesworth nomination.

The nation's chief lawyer and his wife were not impressed with the bar association's disapproval of Haynsworth on the high court. Martha had actually called to warn the senators that she would "go on national television and defeat them" if they did not support the Haynsworth nomination. One senate wife was quoted as saying Mrs. Mitchell was "vile and nasty" on the telephone. Mrs.

Betty Fulbright, wife of powerful Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, said her call from Martha "startled me and made me a little angry. I told her I didn't like being lobbied, and I didn't try to run my husband's affairs. But she kept going on for 30 minutes. She said she'd been calling people like that for three days.

"I have never, in all my life in Washington, had a Cabinet wife or any other wife call me and lobby for my husband's vote." Fulbright said later that his wife was "so mad," he was afraid "she was going to have a heart attack." The Arkansas senator had already made up his mind to vote for confirmation of Haynsworth UUITD3 THESE CIDUMRIS 100 EXTRA VALUE STAMPS purchases totaling $2.50 to $4.99 also be used in combination with other Triple with larger purchases except tobacco beer wine Coupon A rf TTT TOP on This coupon may Header Coupons CouDon aood throuah Julv 28 TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT1 150 EXTRA Coupon I tti i This Header TOP VALUE STAMPS on purchases totaling $5.00 to $7.49 coupon may also be used in combination with other Triple Coupons with larger purchases except tobacco, beer, wine Coupon good through July 28 llllllillilllkklii.iikikkki.kkk 111 W-------- -------a msmmmmm.Um my HMHHHHiHHHiiHHaHMMi YttTtTTtttt ttTTYttt TTT 200 EXTRA VALUE STAMPS Coupon TOP fTTTTT TT on This coupon may Header Coupons purchases totaling $7.50 to $9.99 also be used in combination with other Triple with larqer purchases except tobacco, beer, wine Coupon good through July 28 r0 tTTTTTTttTTTtTttTTtTI IVTT Coupons A are worth 300 stamps on a purchase Coupons are worth 350 stamps on a purchase of $12.50 through $14.99. Coupons are worth 450 stamps on a purchase of $15.00 or more. XAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Honesty Admired But not everyone disapproved of Martha's initial vocal ventures. "She's the most honest person to hit Washington since I've been here," said Barbara Howar, most famous for being someone Henry Kissinger once dated, and a would-be heiress to the Perle Mesta Throne. A prominent old-school GOPer, Mrs.

Jouett Shouse, said: "She's fearless and she's amusing, and there's an undertone of seriousness in everything she says. So many people in this town have forgotten how to think lor themselves." What did John Mitchell think of Martha's mbuth-ings? "I love her, that's all I have to say." He has never said, however, whether he'd let Martha make the phone calls she's Just dying to let go with. It took Watergate and Martha's anti-Nixon ravings to finally cause John Mitchell to urge the press to ignore Martha. NEXT: Martha tells of her "imprisonment." against foreign intelligence activities. "The foreign intelligence activities have nothing to do with the opinion of Ellsberg's psychiatrist about his intellectual or emotional or psychological state," Ervln declared.

"How do you know that?" Ehrliehman asked. "Because I can understand the English language," Ervin replied sharply. "It's my mother tongue." The crowd liked that. Ehrliehman, in their eyes, had lost another round. In another part of town, the former White House associate discussed the other John Ehrliehman, the one the crowd didn't see.

"He had a nice sense of family about his domestic council," the friend said. "He'd take them up to Camp David on weekends when the President wasn't there." Then he added: "He's the kind of guy who takes his family backpacking in the Washington woods. Can you imagine that?" Maybe John Ehrliehman will appear sometime on the witness stand. Mate Under Fire John Mitchell, meanwhile, was coming under a storm of criticism. First there had been the poor selection of Haynsworth.

Then there were the things Martha had quoted him as saying regarding "liberal Communists" and, finally, there was the new Supreme Court nominee, G. Harrold Carswell, who was being raked over the Senate coals. "I find it hard," she said at the time, "to take the criticism of my husband, my poor husband. All the things the papers are writing about him are bad enough. I'm terribly sensitive about criticism.

I have thin skin. "John is the most intelligent man in the world," she added. "I don't like a plebeian existence and John stimulates me. He's soft, "I do not know quite what you are getting at," Ehrliehman replied. "If you are getting at the special unit and the problem of "I do not know why you have to find out what I am getting at, if you Just answer my question as I ask It," Dash retorted.

"It is an obscure question," Ehrliehman declared. By late afternoon, Ehrliehman was tangling with Ervin. Ehrliehman had contended early in the day that the President had the constitutional authority to permit the burglary of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office by White House inveiti-gators to protect the national security. Ervin, who bows to no man in his reverence toward the Constitution, obviously had been waiting for hours to challenge that concept.

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He was still Mr. Nixon's man, no doubt about It In fact and faith, If not in pay. And from the moment Tuesday morning when he sat at the witness stand in his neat gray suit, blue shirt and blue-and-red-pattern-ed tie and listened to the sustained applause of the spectators as Sen. Sam J. Ervln Jr.

(D-N. C), the committee chairman strode into the room, he must have sensed he was on less than friendly ground. Throughout his questioning by Sam Dash, the majority counsel, he interrupted frequently to ask that questions be repeated. At one point, Dash asked him if he had been "assigned a role to create In the White House a capability for intelligence-gathering at any time." watched the baldlsh head bob and the dark brows rise and fall expressively on television. "I've seen him under hostile pressure before.

He doesn't flap, nor does he become a doormat." Ehrliehman was a new kind of witness for the committee, a tough, unapologet-ic Nixon stalwart who obviously felt that a good offense was the best defense. Most of those who have paraded to the stand before have been deferential and have at least assumed an air of co-operativeness. EVEN JOHN N. MITCHELL, the former attorney general and presidential campaign director, presented a muted version of his usual crusty self in most of his appearances before the committee. But from his opening statement, which was reminiscent of a high school civics lecture as he detailed the duties of the President, the "drudgery" of "work that is really never done," Ehrliehman seemed to be challenging or chiding the committee.

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