John Newton Mitchell, né le 15 septembre 1913 à Détroit et mort le 9 novembre 1988 à Washington, D.C., est un avocat et homme politique américain. Membre du Parti républicain, il est procureur général des États-Unis entre 1969 et 1972 dans l'administration du président Richard Nixon. Wikipedia
“This country is going so far to the right you won't recognize it.”
To a reporter, mentioned in :
John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate, November 10, 1988, The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/obituaries/john-n-mitchell-dies-at-75-major-figure-in-watergate.html?pagewanted=all,
“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”
Remarks (overheard by reporters) in July 1969 after meeting with a group of black civil rights workers, who protested the Administration's action on the Voting Rights Act of 1965
reported in :
The Washington Post, "Watch What We Do," editorial (July 7, 1969), p. A22.
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations, James H. Billington, Library of Congress, 2010, Courier Corporation, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=91IFAYFhtOMC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Mitchell,
Watch What We Do, William Safire, 14 November 1988, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/14/opinion/essay-watch-what-we-do.html,
Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past, Bruce, Bartlett, 8 January 2008, Palgrave Macmillan, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=POhHuoGILNYC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=Watch-What-We-Do,
We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Robert Charles, Smith, 22 July 1996, SUNY Press, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=eNrMbvyHhrIC&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=Watch-What-We-Do,
The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, James, Rosen, 20 May 2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=fHIGQTGemnAC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=watch-what-we-do,
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, Rawson, Hugh; Miner, Margaret., 2006, Oxford University Press, USA, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=You-will-be-better-advised,
Quoted by :
Katharine Graham Personal History, 22 July 1997, Alfred A. Knopf (via Google Books) https://books.google.com/books?id=jkxz77hC_48C&pg=PA465&dq=tit,
The Watergate Watershed -- A Turning Point for a Nation and a Newspaper, Katharine Graham, January 28, 1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/graham.htm,
[Bernstein, Carl, Woodward, Bob, All The President's Men, 1974, Simon and Schuster, New York, 105]
