Letter from Washington

Attorney General John Mitchell will leave the Administration late this year, probably in December, to run the Nixon re-election drive. His departure will mean that the political effort, which was managed almost exclusively from the executive branch during the middle years of the Nixon Administration, will now be concentrated in a citizen’s organization and in the Republican National Committee. Since late 1970 the President has been concerned with the Administration’s image as “mostly a political organization.” This has been reflected in the departure of political operative Murray Chotiner from the White House staff and the move of Harry Dent from the White House proper to the Executive Office Building.

Speculation about Mitchell’s successor centers on four names.

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Attorney General John Mitchell will leave the Administration late this year, probably in December, to run the Nixon re-election drive. His departure will mean that the political effort, which was managed almost exclusively from the executive branch during the middle years of the Nixon Administration, will now be concentrated in a citizen’s organization and in the Republican National Committee. Since late 1970 the President has been concerned with the Administration’s image as “mostly a political organization.” This has been reflected in the departure of political operative Murray Chotiner from the White House staff and the move of Harry Dent from the White House proper to the Executive Office Building.

Speculation about Mitchell’s successor centers on four names.