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Watergate Investigation Continues; Mitchell Says Nixon Will Have To Defend His Own Good Name

By BROOKS JACKSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-John N. Mitchell said that President Nixon ultimately will defend his own good name in the Watergate scandal, and a ranking Republican suggested anew that the President discuss the case personally with investigating senators. Mitchell, the former attorney general and campaign director, defended himself and the President in a second day of televised testimony before the Watergate committee. Nixon has said he will not appear before the panel. “I think the good name of the President is going to be protected by the facts and by the President himself Mitchell said. Sen. Howard H . Baker Jr., RTenn., asked Mitchell how the panel can get Nixon’s response to Watergate testimony. “How do we get to complete the record in some respects?” he asked. “I would believe and hope that after your hearings are over, the President will respond to the salient points of your

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Hadley Mowrer, 81, looks back over the five struggling years she spent with Ernest Hemingway drinking cheap wine and living in walkup flats and says “I wouldn't trade a bit of it, but I couldn't have lasted much longer with Ernest.” The first wife of Hemingway, she was a sheltered girl from St. I.ouis when she married the then unknown 21-year-old writer in 1921. They lived much of the time off her inheritance of $8,000, pinching corners to make ends meet. They traveled off season when rates were low, walked a lot. spent time with friends, which didn't cost money, and borrowed books because they couldn't afford them. They lived simply in a walkup Paris apartment on the Left Bank and ate in cheap cafes until he became rich and famous and divorced her for cosmetic heiress Pauline Pfeiffer. “‘We lived in the poorest places before he clicked,” she says, adding “the poor times when you struggle to make the best of it. those are the best times.” In those days she believes she was right for Hemingway. “I was good for him. I was able to take those lean years quite comfortably and we had good times.” Despite their parting “I could never learn to hate Ernest,” she said recalling their days together. “I enjoyed life for a while with him. But the pace was very great. 1 was dead tired all the time. Then, too, I knew I had a rival.”

hearing,” Mitchell said. “You think he should?” Baker asked. “I believe that he will," Mitchell said. Baker said he knows of no way the committee can compel Nixon to testify. But he noted that in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson, in connection with ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, invited the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to a meeting at the White House, where he underwent questioning. “Would you comment on that as an alternative?” Baker asked. “1 hope you are all invited down to the White House, hopefully under the circumstances you desire,” Mitchell said. Nixon has rejected suggestions that he testify about Watergate under oath. Nixon also refused to supply the panel with documents it seeks. The committee had been scheduled yesterday to discuss whether to issue a subpoena foi the sought-after papers, but ai the last minute put off the meeting until Thursday. Baker’s office said the reason

It was those years in Paris, the years before he made it, that Hemingway reminisced about in, “Moveable Feast.”

HADLEY MOWRER. first wife of Ernest Hemingway, remembers the five years she spent with the author as good ones. “I always thought I was the one he wrote about,” says Mrs. Mowrer, who was seven years his senior. “No one ever told me that. I just know it.” Their friends then were people like James Joyce. Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound. In their own circle, she was chided for trying to domesticate Hemingway, for trying to stabilize his life style. “No one

for the postponement was that Baker had promised to give a news interview at the time scheduled for the session. But there was immediate speculation that the delay was really intended to give the White House another day to turn over the papers voluntarily and avoid a looming constitutional confrontation. Baker — who has said he communicates with the White House through his televised remarks — asked Mitchell if he had any thoughts on how the committee could obtain the evidence it seeks “without an institutional confrontationT’ Mitchell suggested Baker and committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C. might go to the White House and discuss the problem directly with the President. Mitchell said that amid the Watergate cover-up and the 1972 campaign he did not want to jeopardize Nixon’s re-elec-tion and that was his basis for keeping what he knew of Watergate and other issues from the President. “. . . I still believe that the most important thing to this

ever accused me of it openly,” she says. “But I could feel it. Ezra Pound once warned me, ‘Don’t ever try to change your husband.’” On the other hand, she said, "Some thought Ernest was lucky to have three square meals a day.” Hemingway married three more tunes and became one of America's greatest writers. Among his most noted works are “The Sun Also Rises,” “Old Man and The Sea.” for which he won a Nobel prize, and “A Farewell to Arms.” The soft-spoken Mrs. Mowrer, sharp witted despite her years, divides her time between lakeland and her Chocorua home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. She spends her days now chatting with friends, playing the piano and reading. The marriage ended in divorce in 1926, just after Hemingway hit it big with “ The Sun Also Rises.” Their son Jack is now hunting and fishing commissioner in Idaho. After the divorce she remained in Pans but didn’t marry' again until 1933 when she wed Paul Mowrer, a journalist. He died two years ago. One day in 1961 Hemingway telephoned his first wife from Montana. “I just thought I would like to talk to you,” he told her. “I could feel something was wrong,” says Mrs. Mowrer in retrospect. “I asked him but he said no.” Three weeks later he committed suicide.

country was the re-election of Richard Nixon and I was not about to countenance anything that would stand in the way of that re-election,” Mitchell said. He said, however, that he would have stopped short of anything involving high crimes or treason. Baker asked Mitchell whether it would not have been better to line up political and official aides on the White House lawn and unfold the full story of Watergate to Nixon imoiediately. But Mitchell said Watergate was not his primary concern at the time. “It was what we’ve referred to as the White House horrors,” he said. In that category, Mitchell listed such matters as the burglary at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist; attempts at forgery of foreign policy papers from the Kennedy administration; the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. case involving alleged administration favors; surreptitious wiretaps; and a reported suggestion that the Brookings Institute in Washington be firebombed. At one point, Mitchell said he believes to this day he was right in trying to keep the whole story from Nixon. Later, under Baker’s questioning, he said that in hindsight, it now appears it would have been better to advise Nixon and let him make decisions about what to do. “If I could have been assured at that time that the President would have been re-elected. I’d agree with you wholeheartedly,” Mitchell said. As for lining up the principals on the White House lawn, Mitchell said, “It would have been simpler to have shot ’em all.” Mitchell said he sought to shield the re-elected Nixon from Watergate facts because he did not want to “cast a pall over the second term ...” And Mitchell repeated that during the campaign itself, he did not tell Nixon of political and official involvement or cov-er-up for fear the President would insist on strong action and damage his own re-election chances. “I did not believe, and to this day I believe that I was right, in not involving the President in any of these subject matters,” he told the committee. He said re-election of Nixon was uppermost in his mind. And after Nixon’s landslide victory, Mitchell said, “I was quite confident that the White House would take care of the problem or at least the officials there to the point that it wouldn’t happen again ... “There was no reason in my opinion to cast a pall over the second term,” Mitchell said. Time and again, the questioning returned to Mitchell’s reasons for keeping word of the case and cover-up from Nixon, his boss and friend. Mitchell said that had the President found out the truth about those involved in the case, he would have fired those implicated, including Jeb

Wife Reminisces About Hemingway

Stuart Magruder, the deputy campaign director, and John W. Dean III then White House counsel. “I believe that the President would have brought in the appropriate governmental officials from the investigative

side and those who are the prosecutors and laid it all out to them and said “Here it all is, take it in the proper processes of law,” 1 Mitchell said. He said that would have damaged the re-election campaign. Mitchell denied that his hir-

Tinker Talk

NEW YORK (AP) — “Inflation is a monetary malady, curable only by monetary discipline. Controls are not the answer,” says the First National City Bank in its monthly economic letter. Economists of the bank, the country’s second largest commercial bank, said: “If people expect controls to cause shortages, they will be the outset reduce real money holdings by buying and hoarding goods. So the initial impact of controls may be to raise velocity. “In addition, black markets are likely to occur during a period of shortages."

PROMOTIONS - David Mazer has been named president of Hudson Pulp & Paper Co., to succeed William Mazer, who was elected chairman.

Hudson, with corporate headquarters in New York, has manufacturing and distribution facilities at Palatka, Fla.; Pine Bluff, Ark.; Hamlet. North Carolina; Thomson. New York, and Harrison, N J. STOCK MARKET — Although the stock market lately has shown itself more able to take bad news in stride, some clarification of the investment background is needed belore departing from a conservative market policy, says Standard & Poors in “The Outlook." “While prices of a majority of issues on the New York Stock Exchange would seem low enough in price relative to current earning power to justify a turn for the better, there are as yet not clear signs that the market is about to escape from the downtrend that has dodged it for six months," S & P says.

ing of men now accused of wrongdoing makes him a bad judge of character. Mitchell said pre-Watergate discussion of a plan envisioning possible political kidnaps, which he said he rejected, was not comparable to a case the Justice Department was prosecuting, involving alleged plans to kidnap Nixon’s foreign policy ad-

viser. He repeated testimony that to his knowledge and beliel, Nixon did not know until this year of the Watergate involvement of political and official aides. “1 think the good name of the President is going to be protected by the facts and by the President himself Mitchell said.

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