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Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Her public comments and interviews during the Watergate scandal were frank and revealing.
Apr 22, 2022 · Martha Mitchell gained national attention for her outspokenness while married to Richard Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell. She was silenced and had her reputation undermined to hide...
Apr 23, 2022 · The relationship between Nixon’s Attorney General John N. Mitchell ( Sean Penn) and his wife and Martha Mitchell ( Julia Roberts) play an essential role in the narrative. In real life, Martha was vivacious, flamboyant, outspoken, and a proper gossip girl.
Apr 25, 2022 · Martha, a conservative and flamboyant socialite from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was the wife of John Mitchell, the attorney general and confidante of President Richard Nixon. By 1970, she was also...
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Mitchell's second wife, Martha Mitchell, became a controversial figure, gaining notoriety for her late-night phone calls to reporters in which she accused Nixon of participating in the Watergate cover-up and alleged that he and several of his aides were trying to make her husband the scapegoat for the whole affair.
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Apr 21, 2022 · In the eight-part television series, debuting on April 24, Roberts co-stars with Sean Penn, who plays Martha’s husband, John N. Mitchell, Nixon’s attorney general who later authorized the...
Perhaps one of the most controversial women in late 20th-century American politics, Martha Mitchell was the colorful, brassy wife of John Mitchell, the U.S. attorney general who was imprisoned for his part in the 1970s Watergate scandal.
