Short Stuff: The Gaslighting of Martha Mitchell

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2024-11-20

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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.

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  • We're going to talk about Martha Mitchell, who was the wife of John Mitchell and 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.