Nixon admitted that if it wasn’t for Martha Mitchell, Watergate would never have happened. She was, however, barely a footnote when the Watergate story was told, many times over, from various points of view.
Julia Roberts portrays American socialite Martha Mitchell in Starz s historical drama Gaslit , a TV series depicting the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
Did you know that one of the Watergate era's most polarizing figures was a Pine Bluff native? Meet Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell, the wife of John Mitchell, United States attorney general under President Richard Nixon. She became a controversial figure with her outspoken comments about the government at the time of the Watergate scandal.