She didn’t have Twitter, the way Trump and Conway do. But the wife of Nixon’s attorney general infuriated the president with incendiary pronouncements to reporters.
Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, laughs as she and her husband arrive at the State Department for a diplomatic dinner in June 1970. By Gillian Brockell Gillian Brockell Staff writer for Retropolis Email Bio Follow March 21 at 7:00 AM In psychology circles, there’s an unofficial concept called “the Martha Mitchell effect.
Tell us, @realDonaldTrump—which of these diagnostic criteria do you not satisfy?https://t.co/3wB5U54X9J pic.twitter.com/aJ8hUKtE4Z In the spring of 1972, John Mitchell resigned as attorney general to become Nixon’s campaign manager for his reelection. And in June, Martha joined her husband in California for several campaign events. It was there, on the night of June 17, that John Mitchell got a call about some arrests made at the Watergate Hotel.
The Nixon camp fought back, spreading rumors that she was an alcoholic suffering from mental illness. Martha Mitchell’s celebration — “I’m going to have a ball in New York!” she told the New York Times — didn’t last. The next year, as her husband remained loyal to Nixon in his Senate testimony, “he walked out and left me with $945,” she told The Washington Post. They separated, and around the time of his 1975 criminal trial, she sued him for back alimony.
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