What was the name of Nixon??s Attorney General who approved a plan to ??bug?? Wa

Question:

What was the name of Nixon??s Attorney General who approved a plan to ??bug?? Watergate?

A) Warren Burger
B) John Mitchell
C) J Edgar Hoover
D) Robert Kennedy

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: John Mitchell

Appointed attorney general, Mitchell took office in January 1969 and remained there until March 1972, when he resigned to head Nixon's reelection committee. During his tenure at the Justice Department, Mitchell became controversial for his backing of two of President Nixon's nominees to the Supreme Court who were rejected as unqualified by the Senate, his approval of wiretaps without court authorization (declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court), his prosecutions of antiwar protesters, and his suit to block publication of the so-called Pentagon Papers (rejected by the Supreme Court).

Mitchell resigned as head of the Committee for the Reelection of the President in July 1972, shortly after the arrest of several men discovered burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. In 1974 he was indicted on charges that he had conspired to plan the break-in and that he had obstructed justice and perjured himself during the subsequent cover-up of the affair. He was convicted in 1975 and sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison; he entered prison in 1977 and was released on parole in 1979.