Since mid‐March, she has had her telephone number changed at least three times. “I've been right, haven't I?” in recent weeks, particularly since her husband admitted attending meetings at which bugging proposals were discussed, Mrs. “I guess I'm exonerated,” she added later. “He's not a scapegoat anymore,” she had answered. Rothblatt's office, a reporter had asked if her husband was “the Watergate scapegoat.” She got home in time to see herself on the television news. “I can't get through all those people outside.” “I haven't been going to church lately,” she said. She said she received the Bible she carried when she graduated from kindergarten Sunday school. She often goes to Marble Collegiate Church and says she likes the Rev. “I really have put everything into the hands of God,” she said.
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Later, when she returned to her apartment, she said she had been “frightened” outside the law office when “they got my arm and twisted it, but I carried on.” She said she had made the crack about the dictionary because “I always like a little humor despite the sad ness of it all.” “I wouldn't want to have to swear on a dictionary,” she said. Asked why she was carrying the Bible, she laughed. She was accompanied by her attorney and her chauffeur. “Now you're throwing so many questions at me I can't answer.” “You know how I love all you boys,” she said. Then, when they shouted questions at her, pushing and shoving so she couldn't get to the sidewalk, she looked displeased. “Hello, everybody,” she cried, as reporters and photographers rushed her blue limousine. Rothblatt's offices, she had to push her way through a relentless crowd of “my friends, the press.” She said “sqmething should be done about the city,” which is one of her favorite themes, and suggested, as she has in the past, that she might be persuaded to run for Mayor. Mitchell also complained again about New York City. “She testified freely, articulately and was her own usual charming self,” he said. Mitchell asked that there be no questions that might violate the husband‐wife relationship. He added that at the start of her deposition, Mrs. “She indicated she had no knowledge either before or after other than what she read,” he said. Rothblatt said her testimony was “interesting,” but “not very helpful to the case itself.” “They can't ever pay me enough for the work I've done,” she said.
“He brought so many gadgets, it took a whole truck to bring them in.”Īsked if she was ever courier for cash for the Finance Committee, she giggled, said “No” and added that if she had, she would have been “tempted to keep it.” But she said the committee never paid her. But he did X‐ray her furniture for her, just to make sure the apartment was safe. McCord, she said, may have bugged her Watergate apartment.
Under oath, she testified that a bodyguard assigned to her took off his shoes and socks in the Waldorf lobby, embarrassing her “terribly.”Īnother bodyguard, she said, “was so old I had to carry his suitcases.” “I wanted him fired from the beginning,” she said. She added the name of Jeb Stuart Magruder, a former special assistant to President Nixon, to the list of people she said she has “suspected” all along. President was going to be reelected anyway.” She detailed the California episode during which she said she was thrown to the floor and stuck with hypodermic needle. She described her efforts to get her husband out of the 1972 campaign because “Mr. Nixon of using a news conference to announce that she was “very, very ill.” While sipping Cokes, she told at least 11 assembled lawyers for the Democrats and Republicans that the White House last year leaked false stories about her that suggested she was in an insane asylum. It's like a breath of relief-a breath of fresh air.” “You know I've never really known anything about the Watergate case,” she told The New York Times later in a telephone interview. She added little, if anything, to what is already known in the case. Mitchell is known to have repeated much of what she has already told reporters in telephone conversations. Her testimony, a deposition in connection with the Democrats’ $6.4‐million civil suit against officials of the Committee for the Re‐election of the President, took an hour and 49 minutes.Īlthough no transcript was available, Mrs. Asked if news reports of the case jibed with her supposed knowledge of what she has called “that dirty business,” she answered, “Very well.”
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