Love is all You Need

The Attorney General, John Mitchell, is reputed to be Nixon's closest adviser on internal issues Mitchell's wife, Martha, painted this delightful picture of her husband's political views in an interview at the end of last year: "As my husband has said many times, he'd like to take some of the liberals of this country and change them for Russian Communists."

Mrs Mitchell herself has "emerged as one of the dominant figures on the Washington scene, and her tart tongue has enlivened a lot of cocktail parties" (said Time). Samples of her political philosophy: "Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution. It started with the coloured people in the South. Now other groups are taking to the streets. We could have worked out the integration battle without allowing them to march. My family worked for everything we had. We even have a deed from the King of England for property in South Carolina. Now these jerks come along and try to give it to the Communists ... Man has been given his freedom to a greater extent than ever, and that's quite wrong. Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline. People say they want freedom: yet they tie themselves up completely on drugs ... For 20 years, there has been no discipline of children. You don't inhibit them even if they are threatening to break up the whole house. Now we are reaping the results. Margaret Mead caused a lot of the trouble. She advocates taking drugs and early marriages She and those other spooks just want to get their names in the papers. A few years ago, if you did something wrong, you were sent to the Principal's office."

"When I pass my prime I only hope I have the good sense to grow old gracefully."