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Editor of the paper. bradley said to us, you know there has never been a story like this ever before. you're about to say that the attorney -- the former attorney general of the united states, the highest law enforcement officer in the country is a crook. and we said yeah. but we're right. >> "the washington post" says it has been told that while mitchell was attorney general, he controlled a secret republican party fund used to finance clandestine political espionage operations. mitchell denied the allegations today with some intensity. >> and so mitchell and some of the others at the committ...

>> we started at the bottom. we learned from this bookkeeper who worked at the committee for the reelection of the president that there had been a secret fund that paid for undercover operations against the democrats. there were five people who controlled the funds, and finally we get to the point where we know that nixon's campaign manager john mitchell, former attorney general of the united states, had been among those five people who controlled the secret funds. so we decided we're going do a story on this. i had this number for mitchell, and i called him, and mitchell answered the phone. a...

helping to create the kind of environment that now where we have economic growth, people actually are starting to add to their payroll. there are some ideas on both the republican and democrat side that allow us to potentially, for example, lower rates for small businesses on their taxes, to help spur on some growth and my hope is that both in the house and senate will see packages moving over the next several weeks to provide a jump start to start lowering the unemployment rate. . . seeing that we can accelerate that and binding agreement in those areas. there may be some priorities...

furthest proposals to have a focus on the national debt and have us deal with it. i am concerned this might be short term rather than long term because we're in a recession. we need to create jobs. we need to spend. when you're in a recession, it may not be in america's long- term interest. if we do not deal with issues about tax policies that encourage savings, but i know my friends in the white house raised the issue of health care in this context, so the good news about the bills considered inñr the house and the senate is the two principal goals were to reduce the growth rate of...