so when he became attorney general, excuse me, when he became president, nixon had to convince mitchell to become attorney general. it wasn't a job he sought. i think he wanted to stay on wall street. he was making a very handsome living. i don't think john was sure how martha might adjust to, his wife would fare in -- she actually became a great personality, and she loved it. but it also would destroy their marriage. so it was a, it was a close relationship. when i -- i remember dick klein i was the associate deputy attorney general, and he said, you know, there's nobody that's going to have more influence with this president than john mitchell, and that was true. he was on a lot of the key committees at the white house, he was somebody who would go over and try to give the president straight advice. the closest i ever got to hearing how they interacted was when i listened to the tapes on the selection of the two empty chairs on the supreme court. and by that time mitchell's relationship with nixon has become strained. one of the ways -- and i do this particularly when i did the new ed

always virtually ran his own campaigns so when he became attorney general excuse me when we became president nixon had to convince mitchell to become a turney general. it was in the job he sought. he wanted to stay on wall street. he was making a very handsome living. i don't think john was sure how martha might adjust -- his wife -- will fare in washington. she became a great personality and she loved it but it also would destroy their marriage. so it was a close relationship. i remember i worked in the deputy attorney's office i was the associate general and he said you know, there's nobody to will have more influence with this president it than john mitchell, and that was true. he was on a lot of the committees at the white house. he was somebody who would go over and try to give the president street advice. the closest i ever brought to a hearing how they interacted was when i listened to the tapes on the selection of the two empty chairs on the supreme court. and by that time, mitchell's relationship with nixon has become strained. one of the ways -- and i do this particularly when i do the new edition to blind amb

when he became attorney general -- when he became president, nixon had to convince mitchell to becomettorney general. it wasn't a job he sought. he wanted to stay on wall street. he was making a very handsome living. i don't think john was sure how martha might adjust -- his wife might fare in washington. she became a great personality and she loved it but it also would destroy their marriage. it was a close relationship. i remember i worked in the deputy attorney general's office as associate deputy attorney general. no one will have more influence with this president than john mitchell and that was true. he was on a lot of key committees that the white house and was somebody who would go over to give the president advice. the closest i ever got to hearing how they interacted was when i listened to the tapes on the selection of two empty chairs. by that time mitchell's relationship with nixon has become strained. i do this particularly when i did the new addition to blind ambition, my first book i added an addendum, you can't understand water gate without understanding personality. a

attorney general's office with jeff and i turn to both liddy and say gordon, you've got to be kidding. this isn't real and liddy who became annoyed and snapped his heels and turned to mitchell and said john or general, i can assure you these are the finest roles from baltimore. so he was quite confident he had the talent to handle it and it went on like that. quite an amazing meeting. i knew that mitchell when he got to the bottom line was going to reject and this will cost $2 million mitchell said this isn't quite what i have in mind. we are more interested in the antiwar problem protecting the re-election committee this derogates renault plant send out some would want to go back to the drawing board. they were going to throw them out the window. i can get a second meeting and arrived late and note today from looking at calendars and the archives that i visited with bob haldeman after the first and second meeting to tell him the craziness i was learning about. i went to the second meeting late and heard them talking about electronic surveillance and said listen, i apologize for being late. i don't know if you talked about but i do know this conversation isn't something tha

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and liddy, who became quite annoyed with me, snapped his heels and turned to mitchell and said, john, or, general, i can assure you these are the finest girls from baltimore. [laughter] and so he was quite confident he had the talent to handle it. and it went on like that. it was quite an amazing meeting. i knew that mitchell, when he got to the bottom line, was going to reject it. he said, this is going to cost you a million dollars. he said, gordon, this isn't quite what i had in mind: we're more interested in protecting the re-election committee, so why don't you go back to the drawing board? he realizes today he should have thrown the man out of the window. i came back to a second meeting, and i really arrived late. i now today know from looking at calendars in the archives that i actually visited with bob haldeman after both the first and second meeting to tell them all the craziness i was learning about. i went to the second meeting late, heard them talking about electronic surveillance, and i said, listen, i apologize for being late, i don't know what you've talked about, but i do know thi

general jones a middle east envoy. george mitchell now the middle east envoy.ennis ross which whom you worked so closely in the clinton days. do you think they're still practicing a false religion? >> i told colin powell when i left government i would not criticize the administration's policy. that lasted about five seconds, frankly, after i left. >> you just said this administration doesn't have a policy. these are the players. >> absolute plip. there's no question that you're dealing with a group of extremely smart experienced and talent people. i think there are divisions within each administration. i think nine-tenths of barack obama's problem right now is that the israeli/palestinian problem about which he cares a great deal, about which he wants to see resolved is simply not tractable. the one part that is his problem has to do with how he is responding to the reality that there may well not be a solution. >> well, let me ask you in closing what do you do about some other issues in the region? the syrian deputy chief of mission was hauled into the state d

generalize by using the american experience. >> i certainly can. i'm talking about the united states. >> well, i'm not. you've got to look elsewhere. >> okay, we'll leave that up to you. >> hi, monique mitchell and i think it's very interesting that you more or less mention what i wanted to say. but however, i'm going to start with a history of white people. i was expecting more universal type of situation and i do realize with here the people and you are the author that we are back to the same subject black and white in the united states. it just happens that i do come and he mentioned false. few actually, six or seven months ago i was asked was sera raised because i was dealing a question by phone from the washington hospital. and the man was the questioner and he said collocation of course. and i said yes, caucasian. and he said no, no, black. auntie said black? and i said yes because i'm a descendent of lucy most likely. so i am black. [laughter] a >> that most, definitely. >> so what i want to say to you is please give us a book next time, which gives us an episode of the universal black and white world. thank you. >> merci beaucoup. >> hello. just another angle. i used to live in the u