Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon's Attorney General, was well-known to spread a juicy rumor. That's why when Watergate unfolded, she was held captive in a hotel room on her husband's orders and painted as a crazy alcoholic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck. And it's just us, and that's okay because we're doing short stuff. So let's get started, everybody. Calm down. It's short stuff.
That's right. We're going to talk about Martha Mitchell, who was the wife of John Mitchell in the 1970s, who was Nixon's attorney general for a time. And Martha Mitchell was from the South. She was a – some argue that she was one of the first sort of conservative – political pundits because she loved to go on TV, not like a lot of politician spouses at the time that kept a lower profile.
She loved to be on TV and talk about things. And she loved to call into journalists, maybe have a couple of bourbons and call into journalists and give quotes. And you think like, oh, boy, this sounds like trouble. Eventually, it could have been. But they loved her.
Nixon loved her because she went out there and said the things that not a lot of people were saying in public at the time that he loved.
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