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Is the country gonna right itself now?
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Do we have Watergate behind us?
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We'll never have Watergate behind us, I hope,
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because in a way, it's been good.
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We're teaching the politicians to be straight and not crooked.
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I'm convinced if it hadn't been for Martha,
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there'd have been no Watergate.
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Mrs. Mitchell!
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Is this democracy,
where people are not allowed
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to speak their own mind and the truth?
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You know I love the press.
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So if I have something on my mind,
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I'm not going out and yell it to anybody,
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unless I believe that it's what should be done or said.
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When you arrived at London Airport yesterday morning,
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you said, "Richard Nixon shattered my marriage."
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Now, how did Richard Nixon have so much effect on your whole life?
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Ooh, David,
you've opened up a kettle of worms.
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And I don't know whether I could really explain it
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in the length of time you and I have together.
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Well, we've got at least 30 minutes.
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It dates back from the beginning.
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John Newton Mitchell,
attorney general,
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lived with his wife Martha in Washington's Watergate Apartments.
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The world seemed good to them.
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I know that the president is very fond of my husband.
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They've been law partners.
They've been very close.
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Mitchell is a former bond lawyer,
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who before he managed Mr. Nixon's 1968 campaign
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had never ventured into politics.
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Now as attorney general,
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he has been dealing with some of the most controversial issues
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of our time.
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Some say that your husband
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is the second most powerful man in Washington.
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Could you tell us what he's really like?
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My husband is probably one of the most
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intelligent men in this whole country.
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In the world I would even say.
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Mr. Mitchell, how did you meet your wife?
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Was it a blind date?
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Neither one of us were blind, apparently,
because it worked out all right.
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I was just plain Mrs. Mitchell living in Rye, New York.
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Washington was almost like another country.
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Being semiofficial here in Washington,
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there are so many things
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requested and required of me as a cabinet wife.
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I would like to better the relations of America
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with the other nations of the world,
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to try to put a little love into the world.
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Well, I've often said to young candidates as to how to win,
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first pick the right wife.
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Doesn't make as much news,
and she must recognize that,
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that the husband is going to make the news.
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{\an8}Washington was a male-dominated city.
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It was run by white men at the White House,
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and men at every single cabinet level.
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Women who were part of the Washington social scene were hostesses.
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Women went into the other room and had coffee
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while the men talked about the important things.
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But Martha Mitchell wasn't playing the Washington game.
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She was not gonna be just the wife
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who sits in the background and not say anything.
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A political wife isn't like a normal person
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that can do and say what they please.
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- But I do say what I please.
- Yes.
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Well, sweetie, I tell you what.
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I've seen that in the paper today,
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and I don't think you all have been home and doing your homework.
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If Martha was coming to a dinner at the White House,
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people were on alert.
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Women were more reserved then,
but not Martha.
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The president obviously was aware of it.
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It wasn't that he didn't like women.
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It was that he didn't like loud women.
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Oh, I used to have a lot of fun with the president.
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He didn't know when I was kidding and when I wasn't.
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He found me a rather strange person.
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She would on occasion drink too heavily,
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and then she'd get on the telephone and start calling official Washington.
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{\an8}She liked to call the president.
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She liked to call, quote, "My president."
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Did you call President Nixon
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and talked to him on the telephone recently, Martha?
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- Did you call and tell him what to do?
- Oh, I advise him every once in a while.
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Martha Mitchell said today
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those who advocate violent revolution in the United States
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should be kicked out of this country.
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She did not say where she wanted them kicked to.
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At 2 a.m., she called theArkansas Gazette in Little Rock,
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demanding that Senator Fulbright be crucified.
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Mrs. Mitchell's become a kind of character around here,
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and it's rather interesting.
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I've always thought that Mr. Fulbright...
If you wanna call him that.
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I have an awful time calling him that.
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He's either half-bright...
He's now down to quarter-bright.
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One of the GOP Senate leaders,
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asked if he had heard the Martha Mitchell story, replied,
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"Oh my God, was she on the phone again?"
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Ladies and gentlemen!
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I don't think there's any question that early,
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they enjoyed Martha getting the attention that she got.
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She was good. She was on message.
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Even though she was pro-Nixon,
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she was completely untethered.
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And Mitchell seemed to go along with it, which was even more interesting.
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I can neither control what she says or what she does.
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In fact, she is getting to be known as "the unguided missile."
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Sweetie,
let me tell you something.
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If I'm doing anything wrong in this government,
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just tell me about it.
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Anytime, really.
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The whole administration was completely anti-press,
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and that's one reason that I became so friendly with the press.
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How's my boyfriends?
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When I came along,
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the American people related to me in certain ways.
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The administration couldn't believe it.
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"What are we gonna do with Martha Mitchell?"
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And wife of the attorney general of the United States, Martha Mitchell!
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We have voted you the person who has done the most for Ma Bell,
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and your prize is a telephone in the shape of the Supreme Court.
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Well, that'll make hanging it up a real pleasure.
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Martha Mitchell hit this town like a bombshell.
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She was so refreshing,
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and every reporter in town wanted to interview her, including myself.
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I remember once coming back from California,
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and the Mitchells were onboard.
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We were on the backside of the plane,
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and the men were playing cards,
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{\an8}and Martha Mitchell came back.
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I said, "Well, you know,
what did you think of the miniskirts?"
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"Why don't you ask me something important?"
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I said, "Okay, what do you think of the Vietnam war?"
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She said, "It stinks."
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The men stopped playing cards and grabbed their notebooks.
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And then she was barred from Air Force One.
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Vietnam was the quintessential war that the United States got involved in.
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Several administrations inherited it,
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and Nixon was stuck with it.
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So Martha's comments were beyond awkward.
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Nobody else who was remotely connected to the administration
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would ever say anything like that.
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I'm sure you realize that could be dangerous for a political party,
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a wife speaking out.
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- That's always been, "Don't let her talk."
- Not really.
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- Really?
- I don't think so.
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It's just unusual for a woman to speak her piece of mind.
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Martha is not nuts.
Martha knows exactly what she is doing.
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Well, she's not a concern.
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Isn't she?
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She's always a pain in the ass...
it scares me. I just can't stand it.
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The year 1972 is the year of opportunity for peace
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such as America has never had in its whole history.
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Good evening. Attorney General John Mitchell resigned today,
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effective March 1st,
to go back to his old job
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running Richard Nixon's presidential campaign.
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In 1972,
John Mitchell was the campaign manager.
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Martha Mitchell was definitely chomping at the bit
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to go out and make campaign appearances.
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I was one of the first at CREEP,
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which was the Committee to Reelect the President.
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Magruder, Porter, and myself
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were the first three people that opened up CREEP.
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I had my own staff, my own office.
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I was involved in the whole campaign.
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I knew Martha through my mother,
June Dankworth,
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who had been working with CREEP.
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Over the years,
they became very close friends.
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And to me, she was Aunt Martha.
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They liked Martha because the public liked her.
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She was always kind of the show pony that went on the road.
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I'm out all around the country,
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working day in and day out to make this man president.
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She's been very loyal to the party and to the president
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and seemed, at first,
to enjoy her public appearances.
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But she was getting more and more programmed.
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Changed your feelings about him? At one time,
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{\an8}you believed in Richard Nixon,
you and your husband.
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What happened?
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California.
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I didn't want to come out here that particular time,
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and I was made to come out here on that trip at the last minute.
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Hello, everybody.
What are you doing tonight?
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John Mitchell and I
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and some others from the campaign
were in Los Angeles.
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We were having a fundraiser.
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A waiter comes over with a phone,
and I find out what happened.
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Five men were arrested early Saturday while trying to install
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eavesdropping equipment at the Democratic National Committee.
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The intruders gained entrance to committee offices,
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where files were ransacked and papers removed.
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After the break-in was detected,
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five men were arrested at gunpoint.
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John left me in California...
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and not to my wishes at all.
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And then I read the newspaper for the first time in five days.
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This is a police photograph of James W. McCord.
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He is one to five persons surprised and arrested yesterday
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{\an8}inside the headquarters
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of the Democratic National Committee in Washington.
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{\an8}And guess what else he is?
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A consultant to President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign committee.
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I knew McCord, you see.
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James McCord had been a bodyguard for her
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and took her daughter to school.
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John Mitchell had hired him to be an assistant to his family.
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John Mitchell comes back from California over to Washington.
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At that point, he did have a big problem.
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He had clearly authorized this bungled burglary.
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Today, John Mitchell,
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the chairman of President Nixon's reelection committee,
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denied any connection with the incident.
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Why did they let me go all this time
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without knowing about the break-in at Watergate?
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Why did they leave me out here in California?
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Now, I'm inclined to believe
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that these characters must have gotten me out of Washington
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because of Watergate.
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I immediately picked up the telephone,
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called Washington to find out what it was all about.
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I meet with John Mitchell in his apartment.
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There are calls from Martha then.
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She was outraged that John had left her in California
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and not given her the full story.
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All I heard is that Martha was out of hand,
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that she had been hysterical.
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We were in a villa at the hotel.
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I'm sitting on the bed,
I'm calling Helen Thomas,
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and the bodyguard came in.
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He said, "Mrs. Mitchell is on the phone with Helen Thomas."
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"She's telling her a bunch of stuff about Watergate."
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"What should I do?"
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Pretty soon,
I heard her saying, "Get away."
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I didn't know what was happening,
and then there was a phone disconnect.
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I was a doctor that was on call for the hotel.
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I just went to a private room.
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There were people in the room,
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and they were beside themselves about her yelling and screaming.
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They wanted to calm her down.
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She was held down, and I did give her an injection, tranquilizer.
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This whole thing was very unusual, right?
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But when some high official from the government calls,
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well, then you do it.
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And that was the beginning of my being held a prisoner.
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You really were held a prisoner?
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Literally held a prisoner within four walls.
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Following the embarrassing Watergate bugging affair,
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Martha Mitchell is talking again.
Late yesterday, she told a reporter
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she'd become a captive of her husband's security guards.
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When she used the phone, she said,
five of them tore it out of the wall,
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then, quote, "Threw me down on a bed and stuck a needle in my behind."
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I don't think there are many women in this country
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who call you up and say,
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"Look, I'm being held a political prisoner."
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So you did have this feeling that
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{\an8}there were certain hostile forces.
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She displayed bruises on her arms,
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and she said she had more bruises on her thighs.
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She said, quote, "I was a patriot until I got assassinated."
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The president got into a number of political things today.
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His principal concern was the Martha Mitchell question.
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The president feels that John's got to close her down somehow
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or lock her up.
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That he can't just leave her speaking out like this.
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It's gonna create a major national problem.
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Martha Mitchell is telling reporters
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she is leaving her husband until he decides to get out of politics.
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{\an8}She said, "I love my husband very much,
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but I'm not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on."
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I frankly believe that if it hadn't been for Martha,
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John probably wouldn't have let this Watergate thing get out of hand.
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We've got a lid on it,
but it may not stay on,
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and his getting out might just be a good move on that.
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The Martha fans will think,
"Isn't that a wonderful thing?"
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The man has given up his - you know,
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it's kind of like the Duke of Windsor
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giving up his throne for the woman he loves.
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The poor woman isn't well and all,
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and he's gonna be by her side,
and all that.
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And we would leak out the factthat she's not well - very strongly.We have to.
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We're already doing that.
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All of a sudden, these rumors start flying out of the White House.
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And the first thing I know,
it's in print that I'm crazy,
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that I'm this, that I'm that.
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The resignation is going to be a positive story.
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It's gonna hang totally on Martha.
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I mean, I think you should do it.
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Call in the press.
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John Mitchell,
the former attorney general,
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has quit as President Nixon's campaign director.
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He told the president that his reason for resigning
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was Mrs. Mitchell.
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Some Democrats maintain that the burglary of their headquarters
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carried out by, among others,
a member of Mitchell's staff,
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may have been a factor.
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Republicans flatly and vehemently deny this.
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They say the one and only reason is Mrs. Mitchell.
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A Justice Department friend of the Mitchells said after that, quote,
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"Martha has a special problem."
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"Obviously, it has gotten more serious,"
unquote.
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I was mortified, hurt,
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and I didn't know whom had really hurt me.
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I think the California incident was kind of the beginning.
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That's when she realized
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that, for whatever reason,
she was being silenced.
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Martha Mitchell has ended up
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describing herself as a political prisoner.
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I think that all of us have some obligation to free Martha Mitchell.
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Free Martha Mitchell!
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Free Martha Mitchell!
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- Come on!
- Free Martha Mitchell!
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Free Martha Mitchell!
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The story of how she was held against her will
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seemed so fanciful.
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Did people really believe her?
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I doubt anybody did.
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I'm staying in my own little apartment,
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hiding because I am so embarrassed.
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I just completely resigned myself from politics
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while they were trying every way under the sun
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to get Watergate out of the way.
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Watergate was not just a burglary,
by any means.
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What Watergate was, was a massive campaign
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that played dirty tricks on people to win reelection.
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It was the mad scramble to cover up and conceal,
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as much as possible,
at least until the '72 election.
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Four more years!
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And it succeeded.
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Nixon won by a landslide.
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Hate was the theme of his presidency.
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Let's use the power of the presidency as an instrument of revenge
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against anyone who was in his way,
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including Martha Mitchell.
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With the election,
the Watergate story dried up
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and went to bed basically.
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And it wasn't resurrected until McCord.
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James McCord,
the man who told the judge
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that there was a lot more to be said about the Watergate case,
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today went before a Senate committee to tell what he knows.
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McCord had said
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John Mitchell had advanced knowledge of Watergate.
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Mr. Mitchell, you were once virtually a symbol of law and order...
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I still am. You better believe it.
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John Mitchell is out of the administration at that point.
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He's a private citizen.
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But Martha started talking to friends in the press.
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Fred LaRue told me to be careful when calling
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because Martha picked up the phone and would listen in.
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So be very careful what you say.
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Did you see what Martha Mitchell did?
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No. Did she call somebody?
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She called The New York Times.
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And told them what?
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She went through a whole thing of, "They're framing John,
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and I'm not gonna let them do it."
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She says,
"They're not gonna pin anything on him."
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"I won't let them,
and I don't give a damn who gets hurt."
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"I can name names."
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I think she was angry at Nixon for putting John in this whole situation.
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She wanted to protect John,
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but I don't think she knew how involved John really was.
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I think her love for John was her blindside.
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I am sick and tired of people saying I'm after publicity.
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But if I have to get publicity in order to clear two guiltless people,
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{\an8}my husband and myself...
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And you can place all the blame right on the White House.
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What do you mean "on the White House"?
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What do I mean "on the White House"?
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The blame on the White House.
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Well, where do you think all of this originated?
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Do you think my husband's that stupid?
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And whom do you think he's been protecting?
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Whom?
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I have no idea. Who?
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Mr. President, he has been protecting,
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under no uncertain circumstances.
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I'll tell them all.
And you know what they're gonna do,
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they'll probably end up killing me.
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But I depend on you, the press,
to protect me.
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I was in Madison, Wisconsin,
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and she tracked me down.
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And then she said Nixon should resign.
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She was the first to say so.
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The wife of the former Nixon campaign manager
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said her husband and the president spent many evenings planning strategy.
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And in Mrs. Mitchell's words,
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"Mr. President always knew what was going on."
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Here is a president telling we Americans
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he doesn't know about all these horrible things
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that are happening underneath his nose?
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This man knew what was going on,
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or he was negligent in being president.
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She smelled it.
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She knew something dirty was going on.
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Carl Bernstein and I started to realize she was a Greek chorus of one,
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because she was telling the truth.
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When you're married to someone who's in serious legal trouble,
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like John Mitchell was, you know.
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The only thing that John Mitchell got mad about
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was when I said that I thought that Mr. President should resign.
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And I think perhaps he got a little backtalk from the White House.
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Martha told John Mitchell,
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"If you stick with Nixon,
you're going to jail."
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"And the man who caused it all is going free."
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Former Attorney General John Mitchell has left his wife
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and has moved into a New York hotel.
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Newsweek says this is the result of a recent series of violent outbursts
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in which Mrs. Mitchell threw her husband's clothes
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into the hall of their apartment building.
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Friends claim Mitchell has told them his wife is a sick woman,
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but that he cannot bring himself to take the legal steps necessary
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to have her committed.
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She was by herself after he left.
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Her daughter, Marty, wasn't there.
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And I know that when they were estranged,
that was a hole in Martha's heart.
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I've been under the most trying things,
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and if anybody could turn out to be an alcoholic, I should.
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But I'm not.
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I think she was scared all the time
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that something else might happen to her.
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She said, "I know they're doing this because they think I know too much."
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I have been doped.
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They've tried to put me in the mental institution twice.
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They've tried to kill me.
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I was scared to death.
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Because every day, I wake up and I think,
"What's gonna happen today?"
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I don't know why I didn't realize,
to some extent,
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what was going on, but I didn't.
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...until I found out
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Richard Nixon and Mitchell sat in the Oval Office
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and planned all this mess on me.
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It was in the tapes.
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It was only last week that the Senate Watergate Committee
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learned of the existence
of tape recordings
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of President Nixon's conversations,
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including conversations bearing on Watergate.
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John Mitchell, as I thought,
resigned because of me,
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but the tapes say, to the contrary,
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that he and Richard Nixon controlled me,
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and therefore they had planned
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exactly how Mitchell would get out of the campaign.
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She really went over the brink this time around.
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We've created something of a Frankenstein with the press, you know.
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She's a... She's a celebrity.
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That is correct.
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I can try to keep a lid on it and keep things quiet.
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With you taking this move,
it will be a surprise.
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Otherwise...
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You're right,
it will be tied right into Watergate.
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Nixon's closest political associates
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were placed under criminal indictment today
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in a climactic moment for the long Watergate investigation.
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John Mitchell,
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former attorney general and campaign director,
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now charged with obstruction of justice,
lying to the grand jury and the FBI,
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faces 30 years in prison.
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I'm sure Mitchell thought he was gonna get a pardon,
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but then, of course,
Nixon left without pardoning him.
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Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate,
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I have felt it was my duty to persevere.
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However, it has become evident to me
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that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress.
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I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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The night that Nixon resigned
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was the first time I really felt the whole thing.
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And that was the beginning of I had to stand up.
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There was a time people thought
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that Martha Mitchell was amusing and outrageous,
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with her outspoken opinions and midnight telephone calls.
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Then came her frank angry statements on the Watergate,
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and the chilling realization that Martha Mitchell was telling the truth.
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Welcome to Panorama. I'm Maury Povich.
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And would you please welcome our co-host this week, Martha Mitchell.
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The White House was telling reporters such as myself,
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John Mitchell was resigning
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because he had to go take care of his wife who had flipped.
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- Poor John had to take care of me.
- That's right.
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People say you started the whole Watergate thing.
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{\an8}- You let everybody know.
- That's absolutely right.
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- Are you happy with the outcome?
- Thank you... I am indeed.
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Do you think that if President...
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It's been the greatest thing in the world for this country.
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We're going to get all the politicians
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real true blue again.
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They're not going to be dishonest.
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The men who were closest to Richard Nixon,
in the White House and in politics,
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today were sentenced to prison for their role in the Watergate cover-up.
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For many people,
it was the grand finale
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of the Watergate drama.
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Afterward, John Mitchell had a comment.
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It could've been a lot worse.
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He might've sentenced me to live with Martha Mitchell,
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so I think I'm on the plus side since then.
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Are you bitter at all about this?
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Extremely so.
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Martha Mitchell,
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a lady who has been famous for dispensing much talk at the White House,
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has taken up selling dresses at the Pink House.
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She sued John Mitchell for overdue support payments,
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and within the last two weeks,
a court document described her
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as desperately ill,
without funds and without friends.
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When she got sick,
she didn't wanna see a lot of her friends.
504
00:35:58,698 --> 00:36:01,367
The one person who she did wanna see, refused to see her.
505
00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:21,596
About 400 people in Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
506
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:22,805
turned out this morning
507
00:36:22,889 --> 00:36:25,725
to pay their final respects to Martha Mitchell.
508
00:36:28,477 --> 00:36:31,814
Her candor got her in trouble with the Nixon administration
509
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:34,150
and with her own husband.
510
00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:38,404
But it earned her many admirers back at home.
511
00:36:38,487 --> 00:36:40,323
Some of them sent flowers.
512
00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:44,410
One arrangement in white chrysanthemums spelled out this message,
513
00:36:44,493 --> 00:36:46,204
"Martha was right."
514
00:36:46,287 --> 00:36:47,622
There was no card.
515
00:36:58,299 --> 00:37:00,009
Was she a crazy lady?
516
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:03,095
I certainly don't think so.
517
00:37:03,179 --> 00:37:04,972
I think that she was a terrific person,
518
00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:08,226
and I think she was a visionary in a sense.
519
00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:10,019
Prophetic.
520
00:37:17,401 --> 00:37:19,946
Mrs. Mitchell,
you're certainly going to appear
521
00:37:20,029 --> 00:37:21,447
in the history books here and there.
522
00:37:21,530 --> 00:37:23,407
How would you like people to think of you?
523
00:37:24,784 --> 00:37:26,994
Well, if I ever do any good, Barbara,
524
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:31,832
I would like to go down as doing some good for my country, that's all.
525
00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:34,043
That would be the greatest thrill in the world.
526
00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:36,671
And your way of doing it is to speak out.
527
00:37:36,754 --> 00:37:37,797
That's it.
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