Talk:John N. Mitchell

message: the information below the external link divider is mostly wikipedia, and the rest is wikiquote. is the divider appropriate? pauli 02:40, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  external link 

message: Was John Mitchell ever disbarred, even temporarilly? If so, and it can be verified, add that information to the article and include the article in :Category:Disbarred American lawyers Dugwiki 16:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Part of my question too: the article is currently "Watergate happened, then he died." Manys (talk) 21:22, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There is now a section on his disbarment. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:43, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he ever disbarred? 

message: What happened AFTER the sentencing?  Did he serve?  How long? (Serkul 03:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His sentence is now covered in the article. After his release from prison, he faded from view. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 08:00, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did he serve? How long? 

message: According to http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mitchell.htm: "he served 19 months of a 2 1/2-to-8 year prison sentence." 
From article on Mitchell's death (By Lawrence Meyer,Washington Post, Thursday, November 10, 1988, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/mitchobit.htm): "For his part in the cover-up conspiracy and his failure to tell the truth about it under oath, Mitchell was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica later reduced Mitchell's sentence to one to four years. Mitchell served 19 months at the minimum-security institution at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and was freed on parole Jan. 20, 1979. Mitchell was paroled from Maxwell, among other reasons, because his health was failing."
Btm1 13:50, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information on Mitchell's Prison Time 

message: This article is very well-written, but needs some sources cited.  I will try to add some soon, but have added the Unreferenced tag until then.
Ukulele 18:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources and cites needed 

message: Apparently the September 5 date quoted from  is contradicted by the American National Biography, the Washington Post, and The Guardian, which state September 15. Encyclopedia Britannica changed from September 5 to September 15 too, see Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclopædia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia#John_Mitchell.27s_birth_date.
Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date 

message: The section on Mitchell's efforts to achieve desegregation is a direct quote from the referenced article, is not neutral POV and not appropriate for an encyclopedia as it claims that he was responsible for the change without any evidence to back that up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlanK (talk • contribs) 13:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct quote from article 

message: I removed a citation needed tag from the Dirty tricks section because the source referenced at the end has that material verbatim. There should be some additional RS's that discuss this episode. I'm researching the American Nazi Party and might find something. I think that this section can expanded. 47.137.184.131 (talk) 08:18, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dirty tricks 

message: Only his second wife is mentioned, both in the article and the factbox. Why nothing about the first wife? Valetude (talk) 21:22, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: His first wife isn't very well known, and never did anything noteworthy. I'm not surprised she's not mentioned. His second wife was a controversial public figure. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:57, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First wife? 

message: The paragraph about what is revealed in the tape recordings ends with a sentence about meeting with the President three times to cover up White House involvement in the cover up, but it's not supported by the reference from the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The only thing the reference says about Watergate is this:
There's nothing here about the three meetings with Nixon. This reference may have been confused with another reference. Anyone who knows a better source for this, please correct it. (The information looks correct.) MiguelMunoz (talk) 07:55, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to his meetings with the President about the cover-up.