Mrs. John Mitchell blasts Fulbright
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The wife of Attorney General John N. Mitchell telephoned the Arkansas Gazette at 2 a.m. Thursday and urged the newspaper to "crucify" Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., for his vote against the Carswell Supreme Court nomination.
The Little Rock paper, largest in Arkansas, quoted Martha Mitchell as saying:
"It makes me so damn mad I can't stand it. He (Fulbright) could have done a great deal for the whole vote . . . I want you to crucify Fulbright and that's it."
Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made a rare break with his Southern colleagues Wednesday when he voted against confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carswell for the high court. Carswell was rejected on a 51-45 roll call vote.
When informed of Mrs. Mitchell's phone call to the paper, Fulbright smiled and said, "Mrs. Mitchell has become a kind of character around here."
The attorney general's wife who is a native of Pine Bluff, Ark., was quoted as informing the paper she had talked to three or four "very influential" people from Arkansas who said they would "disown" Fulbright because of his vote.
"He is not representing the people of Arkansas," she said. "I love Arkansas, and I want everything possible for my state. I am from Arkansas. It is my home state. Fulbright doesn't represent the state."
To this, Fulbright retorted: "I don't believe she's in touch with the people of Arkansas. She was born in Pine Bluff, but she's been away from there for 20 or 30 years. She's a New Yorker."
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"The people of the South deserve to be represented," Nixon said.
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But more important than geographical representation, Nixon said, was philosophical attitude. Nixon said he had instructed Mitchell to search the federal and state court systems outside of the South for a nominee who reflects the President's own views on rigid constitutional interpretation.
"I believe a judge from the North who shares my views will be confirmed."
"I have concluded that the next nominee cannot come from the South since this Senate will not confirm him," Nixon said.
Nixon made his brief statement before newsmen after conferring with Mitchell in his oval office.
He said he had talked with Mitchell about the court appointment both Wednesday night and earlier Thursday.
Earlier in the day, the White House conceded it incorrectly told some senators before the vote that Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, would vote for confirmation.
A Baldwin High School senior, Gene Vaughn, 17, of Route 5, Lawrence, was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital Wednesday night with Douglas County's
first case of meningitis. Thursday afternoon Vaughn's condition was listed as poor.
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Leonard Steinle, superintendent of Baldwin schools, said the Baldwin schools will be closed for two days as a precautionary measure. Steinle said Baker University, located in Baldwin, would remain open.
Washington Star later Thursday that she had called the Gazette "really upset" about Carswell's rejection.
Gas leak reported
in my heart, I wonder, am I out of step?"
But, she said, "If I don't have the right to ask the people of Arkansas what they think, its just too bad."
The Gazette has strongly supported Fulbright, whose term does not expire until 1974, and editorially opposed the Carswell nomination.
OSAKA, Japan (UPI) — City police said Thursday a gas leak was reported three days ago in a subway construction site where a gas main exploded Wednesday, killing 73 persons and injuring 282 others.
Both Carswell and Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., who was President Nixon's first choice for the court and also was rejected by the Senate, were recommended to the President by Mrs. Mitchell's husband. Fulbright voted for Haynsworth.
A police report on the accident said employees of the Osaka Gas Co. went to the subway construction site Sunday to investigate reports of a gas leak.
Mrs. Mitchell told the Star she had a perfect right to voice her objections. "... I'm just little Martha Mitchell, just in the city of Washington, period. No right, no rhyme or reason why I have to withhold my thoughts or wishes or anything else."
The Star said that near the close of the 30-minute interview, Mrs. Mitchell said, "Deep down
"I asked them to put in a letter to the editor for me to ask the people of Arkansas if Mr. Fulbright really represented them," she replied: "Look, you can say anything. Even the Arkansas Gazette is crazy."
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