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“ was this larger-than-life, colorful, outspoken woman in Washington at a time when most cabinet wives were seen, not heard.” ( Slow Burn reported that Nixon once told his chief of staff, “We need to turn off Martha.”) “During the Nixon Administration, she was the second most in-demand figure for Republican events after the president himself,” Garrett Graff, author of Watergate: A New History, told The Guardian before Gaslit’s premiere in April. The Arkansas-born conservative, who married John in 1957, was called “the most talked about, talkative woman in Washington” by the New York Times for her penchant for drinking a glass or two of whisky and calling journalists late at night to gossip about the president. Mitchell (who was her second husband) in 1968, she quickly became known as a rabble rouser. When Martha Mitchell moved to Washington, D.C., with John N. “So maybe started out as something more selfish and maybe it seemed less heroic, but the end result is that she is a hero.” Who is Martha Mitchell? “I think Martha spoke out in the beginning because she couldn’t stand that Nixon has such a hold on her husband,” Pickering says. She was denigrated by Nixon loyalists, including her own husband, for speaking out against the president. Martha was nicknamed the “mouth of the South” for her gift of the gab.

“Martha is often sidelined in most of the accounts of Watergate in a way that’s very conspicuous once you know how deeply she was involved in the scandal,” Pickering says.

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She’s played in the new series by Julia Roberts. Mitchell, Nixon’s attorney general and close personal friend. Specifically, that means Martha Mitchell, who was the outspoken wife of John N. But, like the 2020 podcast, Gaslit is more interested in the lesser-known people who publicly opposed the former president.

Gordon Liddy (Shea Whigham), who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in Watergate.

Gaslit, inspired by the debut season of Slate’s Slow Burn podcast, tells the story of those who were involved in the political scandal, including Nixon’s White House counsel John Dean (played by Dan Stevens) and FBI agent G. As Pickering got older and read more about the 37th president of the United States-Jeff Pearlstein’s 2008 book Nixonland is his favorite assessment of the Watergate era-he became more interested in the “people around Nixon, and this culture of complicity.”

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