Martha: The Life of Martha Mitchell

McLendon, W. (1972). Martha: The Life of Martha Mitchell. Random House.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1972

Link

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4570742M

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Martha Mitchell effect
  • The name comes from Martha Mitchell, wife of former US Attorney General John Mitchell, then chairman of the Committee to Re-elect the President, who in 1972 telephoned journalists to report that Nixon-administration officials were conducting illegal political operations and that she was being held against her will; she was widely dismissed as unstable and attention-seeking until the Watergate revelations showed her claims to be substantially accurate

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