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#54 WHERE IS MARTHA MITCHELL WHEN YOU NEED HER
Martha Mitchell had a blonde bouffant, white cat-eye sunglasses, a telephone, and absolutely no intention of keeping her mouth shut.
Washington was still a city ruled by powerful white men who expected women to pour the coffee, host the dinners, and leave the important conversations to them. Martha knew the rules. She simply refused to obey them.
She knew what Nixon and his boys were doing, and she tried to warn the country. So they restrained her, drugged her, gaslighted her, abandoned her—and told America she was crazy.
She wasn’t crazy.
She was right.
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