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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: The Gaslighting of Martha Mitchell

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.678.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

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. 

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0:00.0

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0:34.0

Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

0:35.6

I'm Josh and there's Chuck.

0:37.2

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.

0:44.3

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.

0:58.0

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's spouses at the time that kept a lower profile. She'd 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.

1:20.1

And you think like, oh, boy, this sounds like trouble.

1:24.7

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.

1:33.4

Yeah, I saw that she was known as the mouth of the South.

1:36.9

She was from Arkansas.

1:38.2

And one of her quotes was, I don't believe in that no comment business.

1:43.3

I always have a comment.

1:45.0

That was basically her guiding ethos, her ethos, one of the two.

1:50.7

And she was huge at the time.

1:52.7

Like, she wasn't just like, hey, I really like what you have to say to the paper's way to go when you rain insurer at lunch.

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