Remember Martha Mitchell? Wife of Nixon's AG?

[maveric]

http://sc.essortment.com/watergatescande_rays.htm

"Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on."
Martha Mitchell

The mouth that wouldnt quit. She may have had a part in the downfall of Nixon/Watergate

[knowbody0]

1. man oh man, could we use her today!

i loved that woman's "big mouth".

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Man, I LOVED that woman!

She didn't give a crap about what anyone thought of what she said, she said it! She was GREAT!

[Maple]

3. She died

very mysteriously.

[maveric]

4. Supposedly Mylenoma. I remember her being fine, looking good.

And then dead. :shrug:

[two gun sid]

5. She was great. She'd sit around her big apartment in NYC...

getting fucked up on booze and pills and call the press giving them all kinds of wild-assed stories about the Nixon WH and how Nixon was such a thug and a criminal.

Was it Shana Alexander she used to call all the time?

[Maple]

6. Martha Mitchell effect

The Martha Mitchell effect is a process by which a belief is mistakenly diagnosed as a delusion by a psychiatrist. This is named after Martha Beall Mitchell (the wife of John Mitchell, the Attorney-General in the Nixon administration) who alleged that illegal activity was taking place in the White House. At the time her claims were thought to be signs of mental illness, and only after the Watergate scandal broke was she proved right (and hence sane).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell_effect

[Maple]

7. Martha Mitchell and Helen Thomas

This story goes back a long, long way.


"The story got a fair amount of play—mostly on the women's pages. Maybe editors thought it was just another case of Martha being Martha and newsworthy only because it revealed a rift in a very public marriage. Back in Washington, administration aids began hinting that Martha was hallucinating, that she was deranged or that she was just drunk.
In an interview later, Martha told me, "I want to be sure my side is revealed and that people know I'm not sitting her a mental case or an alcoholic."
What happened in that villa? She later told me a hair-raising story: "They threw me down on the bed—five persons did it—a doctor, a nurse, Lea Jablonsky . . . pulled my pants down and stuck a needle in my behind, the longest needle you ever saw. I've never been treated like this before." She had a gash in her hand that she said required eleven stitches."



http://www.maebrussell.com/Watergate/Helen%20Thomas.html

[Sparkman]

8. "Martha had a habit of listen'g on the xtension. She might call the press

Page 197, John Dean's book, BLIND AMBITION.
And on pg 244, where John Dean is talking to John Mitchell about leaving the country to avoid the Watergate fiasco, John Mitchell says, "I'm not so sure I'd take Martha with me. And I'm not so sure we'd want to have."
The assholes, in covering up Nixon's documented involvement in the Watergate breakin, had a real problem because Martha was not ready for her husband to fall on his sword for a prick like tricky Dick.
So they laughed about Martha's drinking & coping problems.
More innocent victims of the power hungry Fascist's, the Nixon White house crew.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. The tragedy and the glory of Martha Mitchell is that she was originally

a bona fide true believer of Nixon. I read her biography and she defended Nixon in the very beginning of the accusations. She always referred to him as "Mr. President" and wouldn't believe that her leader was capable of such acts, or worse, the true nature of his character. She should have looked closer because Nixon and her husband thought she was foolish for such ignorance.

The saving grace was she did wise up and she took appropriate steps, albeit for her own safety and mercenary reasons, but the country benefitted from her unorthodox actions.