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02:09John Newton Mitchell, Attorney General, lived with his wife Martha in Washington's Watergate apartments.
02:18The world seemed good to them.
02:21I know that the president is very fond of my husband.
02:24They've been law partners, they've been very close.
02:27Mitchell is a former bond lawyer who, before he managed Mr. Nixon's 1968 campaign, had never ventured into politics.
02:35Now, as Attorney General, he has been dealing with some of the most controversial issues of our time.
02:41Some say that your husband is the second most powerful man in Washington.
02:46Could you tell us what he's really like?
02:49My husband is probably one of the most intelligent men in this whole country.
02:54In the world, I would even say.
02:58Mr. Mitchell, how did you meet your wife?
03:01Was it a blind date?
03:02Neither one of us were blind, apparently, because it worked out all right.
03:08I was just playing Mrs. Mitchell, living in Rye, New York.
03:14Washington was almost like another country.
03:16Being semi-professional here in Washington, there are so many, many things requested and required of me as a cabinet wife.
03:39I would like to better the relations of America with the other nations of the world, to try to put a little love into the world.
03:53Well, I've often said to young candidates for how to win, first, pick the right wife.
03:58It doesn't make as much news, and she must recognize that, that the husband is going to make the news.
04:09Washington was a male-dominated city.
04:14It was run by white men at the White House and men at every single cabinet level.
04:20Women who were part of the Washington social scene were hostesses.
04:28Women went into the other room and had coffee while the men talked about the important things.
04:35But Martha Mitchell wasn't playing the Washington game.
04:39She was not going to be just the wife who sits in the background and not say anything.
04:43A political life isn't like a normal person.
04:49They can do and say what they please.
04:52But I do say what I please.
04:54Yeah.
04:55Well, sweetie, I'll tell you what.
04:57I've seen that in the paper today.
04:59And I don't think you all have been home and doing your homework.
05:03If Martha was coming to a dinner at the White House, people were on alert.
05:08Women were more reserved then, but not Martha.
05:15The president obviously was aware of it.
05:18It wasn't that he didn't like women.
05:21It was that he didn't like loud women.
05:28Oh, I used to have a lot of fun with the president.
05:31He didn't know when I was kidding and when I wasn't.
05:35He found me a rather strange person.
05:38She would, on occasion, drink too heavily.
05:43And then she'd get on the telephone and start calling official Washington.
05:50She liked to call the president.
05:53She liked to call, quote, my president.
05:56Did you call President Nixon and talk to him on the telephone recently, Martha?
06:01Did you call and tell him what to do?
06:03Oh, I advise him every once in a while.
06:05Martha Mitchell said today, those who advocate violent revolution in the United States should
06:14be kicked out of this country.
06:17She did not say where.
06:18She wanted them kicked to.
06:19Today at about 2 a.m.
06:22She called the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, demanding that Senator Fulbright be crucified.
06:27Mrs. Mitchell's become a kind of character around here.
06:30And it's rather interesting.
06:34I've always thought that Mr. Fulbright, if you want to call him that,
06:37I have an awful time calling him that.
06:39He's either half bright, he's now down to quarter bright.
06:45One of the GOP Senate leaders asked if he had heard the Martha Mitchell story, replied,
06:49Oh, my God, was she on the phone again?
06:52Ladies and gentlemen!
06:54I don't think there's any question that early, they enjoyed Martha getting the attention that
07:01she got.
07:02She was good.
07:03She was on message.
07:06Even though she was pro-Nixon, she was completely untethered.
07:12And Mitchell seemed to go along with it, which was even more interesting.
07:15I can neither control what she says or what she does.
07:21In fact, she is getting to be known as the unguided missile.
07:27Sweetie, let me tell you something.
07:28If I'm doing anything wrong in this government, just tell me about it.
07:33Anytime.
07:34Really.
07:35The whole administration was completely anti-press, and that's one reason that I became so friendly
07:51with the press.
07:52I'm my boyfriend.
07:53When I came along, the American people related to me in certain ways.
07:58The administration couldn't believe it.
08:02What are they going to do with Martha Mitchell?
08:05We have voted you the person who has done the most for Ma Bell, and your prize is a telephone
08:18in the shape of the Supreme Court.
08:22Well, that'll make hanging it up a real pleasure.
08:35I think that Martha Mitchell hit this town like a bombshell.
08:45She was so refreshing, and every reporter in town wanted to interview her, including myself.
08:51I remember once coming back from California, and the Mitchells were on board.
09:00We were on the back side of the plane, and the men were playing cards, and Martha Mitchell came back.
09:06I said, well, you know, what do you think of the miniskirts?
09:09Why don't you ask me something important?
09:12I said, okay, what do you think of the Vietnam War?
09:16She said, it stinks.
09:19The men stopped playing cards and grabbed their notebooks.
09:23And then she was barred from Air Force One.
09:32Vietnam was the quintessential war that the United States got involved in.
09:38Several administrations inherited it, and Nixon was stuck with it.
09:44So, Martha's comments were beyond awkward.
09:49Nobody else who was remotely connected to the administration would ever say anything like that.
09:56I'm sure you realize that could be dangerous for a political party.
09:59A wife speaking out.
10:01I mean, that's always been like, ugh.
10:03Not really.
10:04Really?
10:05I don't think so.
10:06It's just unusual for a woman to speak her peace of mind.
10:14Martin is not nuts.
10:18Martin knows exactly what she's looking for.
10:24Why is she not a concern?
10:26Why is she?
10:40I'm sure you know all this will happen to me, and that's what it excurses me.
10:43I just can't stand it, sir.
10:53The year 1972 is the year of opportunity for peace, such as America has never had in its whole history.
11:13He's the leader he can trust.
11:17Our man is fixin', he's right on fixin', a better world for all of us.
11:24Good evening.
11:29Attorney General John Mitchell resigned today, effective March 1st, to go back to his old job, running Richard Nixon's presidential campaign.
11:37In 1972, John Mitchell was the campaign manager.
11:43Martha Mitchell is definitely chomping at the bit to go out and make campaign appearances.
11:50I was one of the first Creep, which was a committee to re-elect the president.
11:58Magruder, Porter, and myself were the first three people that opened up Creep.
12:04I had my own staff, my own office.
12:08I was involved in the whole campaign.
12:11I knew Martha through my mother, June Dankworth, who had been working with Creep.
12:17Over the years, they became very close friends, and to me, she was Aunt Martha.
12:23They liked Martha because the public liked her.
12:26She was always kind of the show pony that went on the road.
12:30I'm out all around the country, working day in and day out to make this man president.
12:41She's been very loyal to the party and very loyal to the president, and seemed, at first, to enjoy her public appearances.
12:49But she was getting more and more programmed.
12:52What changed your feelings about him?
12:57Because I know that at one time, you believed in Richard Nixon, you and your husband.
13:01What happened?
13:03California.
13:08I didn't want to come out here that particular time, and I was made to come out here on that trip at the last minute.
13:22Hello, everybody.
13:25What are you doing tonight?
13:28John Mitchell and I and some others from the campaign were in Los Angeles, and we were having a fundraiser, a way to come through with a phone, and I find out what happened.
13:44Five men were arrested early Saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the Democratic National Committee.
13:51The intruders gained entrance to committee offices, where files were ransacked and papers removed.
13:57After the break-in was detected, five men were arrested at gunpoint.
14:07John left me in California, not to my wishes at all.
14:14And then I read the newspaper for the first time in five days.
14:21This is a police photograph of James W. McCord.
14:30He is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington.
14:36And guess what else he is?
14:38A consultant to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign committee.
14:45I knew McCord, did you say?
14:50James McCord had been a bodyguard for her and took her daughter to school.
14:57John Mitchell had hired him to be an assistant to his family.
15:01John Mitchell comes back from California to Washington.
15:10At that point, he did have a big problem.
15:13He had clearly authorized this bungled burglary.
15:17Today, John Mitchell, the chairman of President Nixon's re-election committee, denied any connection with the incident.
15:23Why did they let me go all this time without knowing about the break-in at Watergate?
15:32Why did they leave me out here in California?
15:36Now, I'm inclined to believe that these characters must have gotten me out of Washington because of Watergate.
15:45I immediately picked up the telephone, called Washington to find out what it was all about.
15:54I meet with John Mitchell in his apartment.
15:59There are calls from Martha then.
16:02She was outraged that John had left her in California and not given her the full story.
16:09All I heard is that Martha was out of hand, that she had been hysterical.
16:21We went to Villa at the hotel.
16:25I'm sitting on the bed.
16:26I'm calling Helen Thomas.
16:28And her bodyguard came in.
16:29He said, Ms. Mitchell's on the phone with Helen Thomas.
16:38She's telling her a bunch of stuff about Watergate.
16:42What should I do?
16:45Pretty soon, I heard her saying, get away, get away.
16:49And I didn't know what was happening.
16:50And then there was a phone disconnect.
16:52I was a doctor that was on call for the hotel.
17:07I just went to a private room.
17:11There were people in the room, and they were beside themselves about her yelling or screaming.
17:17They wanted to calm her down.
17:19She was held down, and I did give her an injection tranquilizer.
17:30This whole thing was very unusual, right?
17:33But when some high official from the government calls, well, then you do it.
17:38And that was the beginning of my being held a prisoner.
17:43You really were held a prisoner?
17:44Literally held a prisoner within four walls.
17:49Following the embarrassing Watergate bugging affair, Martha Mitchell is talking again.
17:56Late yesterday, she told a reporter she'd become a captive of her husband's security guards.
18:01When she used the phone, she said five of them tore it out of the wall, then, quote,
18:05threw me down on a bed and stuck a needle in my behind.
18:08I don't think there are many women in this country who will call you up and say, look, I'm being held a political prisoner.
18:17So you did have this feeling that there were certain hostile forces.
18:23She displayed bruises on her arms, and she said she had more bruises on her thighs.
18:27She said, quote, I was a patriot until I got assassinated.
18:32The president got into a number of political things today.
18:41His principal concern was the Martha Mitchell question.
18:46The president feels that John's got to close her down somehow or lock her up,
18:51that he can't just leave her speaking out like this, that it's going to create a major national problem.
18:56Martha Mitchell is telling reporters she is leaving her husband until he decides to get out of politics.
19:07She said, I love my husband very much, but I'm not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on.
19:13We've got a lid on it, but it may not stay on, and if it's getting out, it might just be a good move on that.
19:37The Martha fans will think, isn't that a wonderful thing?
19:46The man has given up, it's kind of like the Duke of Windsor, giving up the throne for the woman he loves.
19:54The poor woman is well-known, he's going to be by her side and all that.
19:58And we would freak out of the fact that she's not going to go first.
20:02We have to, we're already doing that.
20:03All of a sudden, these rummers start flying out of the White House.
20:11And the first thing I know, it's in print that I'm crazy, that I'm this, that I'm that.
20:18The resignation is going to be a positive story.
20:20He's going to hang over me on Martha.
20:23I mean, I think you should call him the press.
20:26John Mitchell, the former attorney general, has quit as President Nixon's campaign director.
20:35He told the president that his reason for resigning was Mrs. Mitchell.
20:39Some Democrats maintain that the burglary of their headquarters, carried out by, among others, a member of Mitchell's staff, may have been a factor.
20:47Republicans flatly and vehemently deny this.
20:49They say the one and only reason is Mrs. Mitchell.
20:52A Justice Department friend of the Mitchells said just after that, quote,
20:56Martha has a special problem.
20:58Obviously, it has gotten more serious, unquote.
21:00I was mortified, hurt, and I didn't know whom had really hurt me.
21:15I think the California incident was kind of the beginning.
21:21That's when she realized that for whatever reason, she was being silenced.
21:27Martha Mitchell has ended up describing herself as a political prisoner.
21:38I think that all of us have some obligation to free Martha Mitchell.
21:42Free Martha Mitchell!
21:45Free Martha Mitchell!
21:47Free Martha Mitchell!
21:49Free Martha Mitchell!
21:50Free Martha Mitchell!
21:53The story of how she was held against her will seems so fanciful.
22:04Do people really believe her?
22:06I doubt anybody did.
22:08I'm staying in my own little apartment, hiding, because I am so embarrassed.
22:25I just completely resigned myself from politics.
22:31Well, they were trying every way under the sun to get Watergate out of the way.
22:35Watergate was not just a burglary by any means.
22:54What Watergate was, was a massive campaign that played dirty tricks on people to win re-election.
23:03It was the mad scramble to cover up and conceal as much as possible, at least until the 72 election.
23:15It was the mad scramble to cover up and conceal as much as possible, at least until the 72 election.
23:16And it succeeded.
23:29Nixon won by a landslide.
23:30Hate was the theme of his presidency.
23:41Let's use the power of the Presidency as an instrument of revenge against anyone who was in his way, including Martha Mitchell.
23:55With the election, the Watergate story dried up. Went to bed, basically. It wasn't resurrected until McCord.
24:18James McCord, the man who told the judge that there was a lot more to be said about the Watergate case, today went before a Senate committee to tell what he knows.
24:31McCord had said John Mitchell had advanced knowledge of Watergate.
24:36Mr. Mitchell, you were once virtually a symbol of law and order.
24:40I still am. You better believe it.
24:48John Mitchell is out of the administration at that point. He's a private citizen.
24:54But Martha started talking to friends in the press.
24:57Fred LaRue told me to be careful when calling because Martha picked up the phone and would listen in.
25:04So be very careful what you say.
25:07Did you see where Martha Mitchell's been?
25:18No. He called somebody.
25:20He called the New York Times.
25:22He went through a whole thing of their framing John, and I'm not going to let him do it.
25:35She says they're not going to pin anything on him.
25:37I won't let them, and I don't give a damn who gets hurt.
25:39I can name names.
25:40I think she was angry at Nixon for putting John into this whole situation.
25:49She wanted to protect John, but I don't think she knew how involved John really was.
25:54I think her love for John was her blind side.
25:57I am sick and tired of people saying I'm after publicity.
26:03But if I have to get publicity in order to clear two guiltless people, my husband and myself,
26:12and you can place all the blame right on the White House.
26:16What do you mean on the White House?
26:19What do I mean on the White House?
26:22The blame on the White House.
26:24Well, where do you think all of this originated?
26:26Do you think my husband's that stupid?
26:29And whom do you think he's been protecting?
26:32Whom?
26:33I have no idea who.
26:36Mr. President, he has been protecting.
26:39Under no uncertain circumstances.
26:43I'll tell them all, and you know what they're going to do.
26:46They'll probably end up killing me.
26:48But I depend on you, the press, to protect me.
26:56I was in Madison, Wisconsin, and she tracked me down, and she said Nixon should resign.
27:05She was the first to say so.
27:06The wife of the former Nixon campaign manager said her husband and the president spent many evenings planning strategy.
27:14And in Mrs. Mitchell's words, Mr. President always knew what was going on.
27:18Here is a president telling, we Americans, he doesn't know about all these horrible things that are happening underneath his nose.
27:30This man knew what was going on, or he was negligent in being president.
27:37Carl Bernstein and I started to realize she was a Greek chorus of one, because she was telling the truth.
27:52When you're married to someone who's in serious legal trouble, like John Mitchell was, you know.
28:03The only thing that John Mitchell got mad about was when I said that I thought that Mr. President should resign.
28:11And I think perhaps he got a little back talk from the White House.
28:15Markham told John Mitchell, if you stick with Nixon, you're going to jail.
28:22And the man who caused it all is going free.
28:31Former Attorney General John Mitchell has left his wife and has moved into a New York hotel.
28:36Newsweek says this is the result of a recent series of violent outbursts in which Mrs. Mitchell threw her husband's clothes into the hall of their apartment building.
28:47Friends claim Mitchell has told them his wife is a sick woman, but that he cannot bring himself to take the legal steps necessary to have her committed.
29:06She was by herself after he left.
29:20Her daughter, Marty, wasn't there.
29:23And I know that when they were estranged, that was a hole in Martha's heart.
29:30I've been under the most trying things, and if anybody could turn out to be an alcoholic, I should.
29:36But I'm not.
29:46I think she was scared all the time that something else might happen to her.
29:51She said, I know they're doing this because they think I know too much.
29:59I have been dumped.
30:00They've tried to put me in the mental institution twice.
30:10They've tried to kill me.
30:14I was scared to death.
30:15Because every day I wake up and I think, what's going to happen today?
30:23I don't know why I didn't realize, to some extent, what was going on, but I didn't.
30:39Until I found out, Richard Nixon and Mitchell sat in the Oval Office and planned all this mess on me.
30:51It was in the tapes.
30:53It was only last week that the Senate Watergate Committee learned of the existence of tape recordings of President Nixon's conversations, including conversations bearing on Watergate.
31:03John Mitchell, as I thought, resigned because of me, but the tapes say, to the contrary, that he and Richard Nixon controlled me, and therefore, they had planned exactly how Mitchell would get out of the campaign.
31:25She really went over to the break this time around.
31:45We created some of the private stuff.
31:48Right.
31:49She's a celebrity.
31:51That is correct.
31:52That is correct.
31:54We're going to keep it a little, thank you, thanks a lot.
31:58But if you take this move, it will be a surprise.
32:01Otherwise, you're right, it will be time.
32:04I don't want to be able to.
32:13Nixon's closest political associates were placed under criminal indictment today in a climactic moment for the long Watergate investigation.
32:21John Mitchell, former attorney general and campaign director, now charged with obstruction of justice, lying to the grand jury and the FBI, faces 30 years in prison.
32:30I'm sure Mitchell thought he was going to get a pardon, but then, of course, Nixon left without pardoning him.
32:40Throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere.
32:49However, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress.
33:00I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
33:03The night that Nixon resigned was the first time I really felt the whole thing.
33:31And that was the beginning of, I had to stand up.
33:41There was a time when people thought that Martha Mitchell was amusing and outrageous, with her outspoken opinions and midnight telephone calls.
33:49Then came her frank, angry statements on the Watergate and the chilling realization that Martha Mitchell was telling the truth.
33:55Welcome to Panorama. I'm Maury Povich. Would you please welcome our co-host this week, Martha Mitchell.
34:06The White House was telling reporters such as myself, Don Mitchell was resigning because he had to go away to take care of his wife who had flipped.
34:27Poor John had to take care of me.
34:28That's right.
34:29People say that you started the whole Watergate thing. You let everybody know.
34:36That's absolutely right.
34:38Are you happy with the outcome?
34:40I am indeed.
34:41Do you think that if the president...
34:43It's been the greatest thing in the world for this country.
34:45We're going to get all the politicians real true blue again.
34:50They're not going to be dishonest.
34:51The men who were closest to Richard Nixon in the White House and in politics, today were sentenced to prison for their role in the Watergate cover-up.
35:01For many people, it was the grand finale of the Watergate drama.
35:06Afterward, John Mitchell had a comment.
35:08Well, it could have been a lot worse. He might have sentenced me to live with Martha Mitchell, so I think I'm on a plus side since then.
35:14Are you bitter at all about this?
35:20Extremely so.
35:34Martha Mitchell, a lady who's been famous for dispensing much talk at the White House, who's taken up selling dresses at the Pink House.
35:41She sued John Mitchell for overdue support payments, and within the last two weeks, a court document described her as desperately ill, without funds, and without friends.
35:54When she got sick, she didn't want to see a lot of her friends.
35:58The one person who she did want to see refused to see her.
36:01About 400 people in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, turned out this morning to pay their final respects to Martha Mitchell.
36:25Her candor got her in trouble with the Nixon administration, and with her own husband.
36:35But it earned her many admirers back at home.
36:38Some of them sent flowers.
36:41One arrangement in white chrysanthemum spelled out this message.
36:44Martha was right.
36:46There was no card.
36:47Was she a crazy lady?
37:01I certainly don't think so.
37:03I think that she was a terrific person, and I think she was a visionary in a sense.
37:09Prophetic.
37:09Mrs. Mitchell, you're certainly going to appear in the history books here and there.
37:21How would you like people to think of you?
37:24Well, if I ever do any good, Barbara, I would like to go down as doing some good for my country.
37:31That's all.
37:32That would be the greatest thrill in the world.
37:34And your way of doing it is to speak out.
37:36That's it.
37:37And your way of doing it is to speak out.
38:07And your way of studying it is to speak out.
38:09And your way of doing it is to speak out.
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