Video: June 22, 1972 (at 8:11)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray told White House Counsel John Dean in a private meeting late this evening that he believes Watergate is “a CIA thing,” having traced the burglars’ money to Mexico.
Video: Mrs. Mitchell telephones Thomas (at 5:38)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, who was head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, telephoned UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas from a villa in Newport Beach, California, to say she had told her husband she would “leave him unless he gets out of the campaign.”
I’m sick and tired of politics. Politics is a dirty business,” Mitchell said. Before the phone was apparently yanked out of the wall, she yells, “You get away. Just get away.”
Video: June 22, 1972 (at 5:02)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, the burglars were brought to court to be released on bail. Meantime, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s men set about organizing their hush money, under the direction of Nixon’s private lawyer Herb Kalmbach.
