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Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Her public comments and interviews during the Watergate scandal were frank and revealing.
Mitchell's second wife, Martha Mitchell, became a controversial figure, gaining notoriety for her late-night phone calls to reporters in which she accused Nixon of participating in the Watergate cover-up and alleged that he and several of his aides were trying to make her husband the scapegoat for the whole affair.
Martha Mitchell was the wife of Nixon's Attorney General, John N. Mitchell, who had recently resigned his role so that he could become campaign manager for Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP). John Mitchell was aware that Martha knew McCord, one of the Watergate burglars who had been arrested, and that upon finding out ...
Martha Mitchell was one of U.S. history’s biggest whistleblowers. There may have been no Watergate scandal without her. Learn more about the figure who helped take down the Nixon administration.
From Julia Roberts' humanizing turn in Gaslit to Netflix's The Martha Mitchell Effect, the irrepressible socialite who antagonized the crumbling Nixon administration is having a moment.
John Dean doesn’t recall the exact date more than 50 years ago when he first met Martha Mitchell, but he remembers his impressions. “The Attorney General [John Mitchell] used to have lunches ...
Mitchell was the wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General in the Nixon administration. When she alleged that White House officials were engaged in illegal activities, her claims were attributed to mental illness. Ultimately, however, the facts of the Watergate scandal vindicated her and garnered her the label "The Cassandra of ...
A podcast, a chat with his boss and a missing piece of the puzzle put Robbie Pickering on the set of the Watergate drama. 50 years later, Martha Mitchell finds redemption in 'Gaslit' Skip to main ...