THE UPSHOT: Mitchell, who was convicted for his role in the conspiracy and ended up serving 19 months, said to a reporter covering the trial, “It could have been a hell of a lot worse. They could have sentenced me to spend the rest of my life with Martha.” He was referring to hi...
According to the FBI, Dean was the "master manipulator" of the Watergate affair. Shortly after the Watergate hearings, Dean wrote about his experiences in a series of books and toured the United States to lecture. He later became a commentator on contemporary politics, a book author, and a ...
This is a very interesting category, featuring two different Netflix documentaries. The pick of those is definitely the intriguing political tale The Martha Mitchell Effect, which tells part of the Watergate story from the perspective of a key female player. That could well win but, even if we...
The president of the United States at the time was Richard Nixon, and as it turned out, the “illegal activities” that she kept going on about were a little thing that became known asthe Watergate Affair. Nixon was quoted as saying that “if there hadn’t been a Martha Mitchell, there...
Mark Felt was an FBI special agent who served as the Bureau’s second-ranking post, Associate Director, from May 1972 until his retirement in June 1973. During that time, he was an anonymous informant to Bob Woodward and other reporters during the Watergate scandal, providing them with critica...
MacInnes was elected to the state Assembly in 1973 in a heavily Republican Morris County district, as part of the Watergate-driven Democratic landslide of that year. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1975. In 1993, he won election to the state Senate in a major upset over ...