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Slow Burn

Watergate | 1. Martha

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.625.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle on Watergate—and ended up ruining her life. Want more Slow Burn? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Slow Burn and your other favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe to Slate Plus on Apple Podcasts by clicking "Try Free" at the top of the Slow Burn show page. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm going to start with a story that you've probably never heard.

0:32.0

It takes place in June of

0:33.2

1972 just a few days after five men broke into the Watergate office building in

0:37.6

Washington DC. It's a story about a woman named Martha Mitchell who was at the

0:42.1

time very famous and whose life was

0:44.8

destroyed in large part because of her proximity to the Watergate conspiracy.

0:48.2

Martha's husband worked in politics. His name was John Mitchell and in June of 1972 he was in

0:55.7

charge of the committee to re-elect President Richard Nixon. Before that Mitchell

0:59.9

had an even bigger job. He was the attorney general of the United States.

1:05.0

Nixon called John Mitchell his most trusted friend and advisor.

1:08.0

Others simply called him deputy president.

1:12.0

Historians disagree on what exactly Martha really knew about Watergate,

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