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"'I believe Mr Nixon knew all along': The tragic story of Martha Mitchell - the Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed

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Years after her death, Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher used her name to describe a psychological phenomenon: the Martha Mitchell effect, wherein a patient's outlandish but real experiences are misdiagnosed as delusions. But it wasn't until recently that the significance of her Watergate interventions, erratic and self-interested though they sometimes were, started to be properly acknowledged.

She became known as the most outspoken and indiscreet of the Nixon cabinet wives, telling a TV reporter in November 1969 that anti-Vietnam war protests reminded her husband of the Russian Revolution

In 1977, Richard Nixon had told David Frost that 'if it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate'. He meant that her unpredictable behaviour had caused his close ally John Mitchell to take his eye off the ball. In reality, she came close to exposing the entire criminal enterprise before a cover up could even begin."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260522-the-tragic-story-of-martha-mitchell

#Watergate #MarthaMichell #history

"'I believe Mr Nixon knew all along': The tragic story of Martha Mitchell - the Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed

(. . .)

Years after her death, Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher used her name to describe a psychological phenomenon: the Martha Mitchell effect, wherein a patient's outlandish but real experiences are misdiagnosed as delusions. But it wasn't until recently that the significance of her Watergate interventions, erratic and self-interested though they sometimes were, started to be properly acknowledged.

She became known as the most outspoken and indiscreet of the Nixon cabinet wives, telling a TV reporter in November 1969 that anti-Vietnam war protests reminded her husband of the Russian Revolution

In 1977, Richard Nixon had told David Frost that 'if it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate'. He meant that her unpredictable behaviour had caused his close ally John Mitchell to take his eye off the ball. In reality, she came close to exposing the entire criminal enterprise before a cover up could even begin."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260522-the-tragic-story-of-martha-mitchell

#Watergate #MarthaMichell #history

"'I believe Mr Nixon knew all along': The tragic story of Martha Mitchell - the Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed

(. . .)

Years after her death, Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher used her name to describe a psychological phenomenon: the Martha Mitchell effect, wherein a patient's outlandish but real experiences are misdiagnosed as delusions. But it wasn't until recently that the significance of her Watergate interventions, erratic and self-interested though they sometimes were, started to be properly acknowledged.

She became known as the most outspoken and indiscreet of the Nixon cabinet wives, telling a TV reporter in November 1969 that anti-Vietnam war protests reminded her husband of the Russian Revolution

In 1977, Richard Nixon had told David Frost that 'if it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate'. He meant that her unpredictable behaviour had caused his close ally John Mitchell to take his eye off the ball. In reality, she came close to exposing the entire criminal enterprise before a cover up could even begin."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260522-the-tragic-story-of-martha-mitchell

#Watergate #MarthaMichell #history

"'I believe Mr Nixon knew all along': The tragic story of Martha Mitchell - the Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed

(. . .)

Years after her death, Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher used her name to describe a psychological phenomenon: the Martha Mitchell effect, wherein a patient's outlandish but real experiences are misdiagnosed as delusions. But it wasn't until recently that the significance of her Watergate interventions, erratic and self-interested though they sometimes were, started to be properly acknowledged.

She became known as the most outspoken and indiscreet of the Nixon cabinet wives, telling a TV reporter in November 1969 that anti-Vietnam war protests reminded her husband of the Russian Revolution

In 1977, Richard Nixon had told David Frost that 'if it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate'. He meant that her unpredictable behaviour had caused his close ally John Mitchell to take his eye off the ball. In reality, she came close to exposing the entire criminal enterprise before a cover up could even begin."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260522-the-tragic-story-of-martha-mitchell