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The blue and white Cadillac that pulled up last week at the federal prison camp in Montgomery was delivering no ordinary arrival, and the taunting convicts knew it. Dressed in a green pinstripe suit and carrying a briefcase, the newcomer slowly worked his way through a crowd of reporters. "They got you now, Big John!" shouted one prisoner. They had indeed, but the big man seemed as glacially composed as ever. "It's a nice day. It's nice to be back in Alabama," said John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's Attorney General.

By surrendering last week...

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