McGovern denies making comment about Katherine Graham's anatomy

Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell infamously threatened during Watergate to put the Washington Post's Katherine Graham's breast in a wringer if the paper continued to publish articles critical of the administration.

In a memo from 1972 that's just surfaced Charles Colson, a Nixon assistant, claims that George McGovern, commenting on Mitchell's threat, said that "based on Katherine Graham's figure, there's no danger in that."

McGovern, in an interview with Slate's Jack Shafer, denies making the comment.