![]() ![]() Her father was a cotton broker, and her mother was a teacher. Martha Mitchell (née Beall) was born in 1918 in rural Arkansas. That story is just as interesting as the one that brought them all down. Gaslit argues that President Nixon and the Mitchells were in a mutually destructive relationship, but it doesn’t show how they got so entangled in the first place. ![]() Martha and John Mitchell at home with their daughter, Marty. Here’s the true story: Who were Martha and John Mitchell? Questions like: “What the hell?”, “Why didn’t she dump his ass?” and, most importantly, “This shit really happened?” Yes, it did. Nixon was forced to resign in no small part due to Martha Mitchell’s whistleblowing, John Mitchell was in prison due to his misplaced loyalty to Nixon, and Martha Mitchell was left penniless and on the verge of death due to the Nixon administration’s ruthless corruption and her husband’s cowardly cruelty.ĭespite knockout performances from Penn and Roberts, Gaslit leaves its viewers with more questions about the Mitchells’ marriage than answers. By the time the Watergate era ended, every member of this twisted throuple had met their own tragic fate. ![]() Did the Mitchells’ marriage destroy Richard Nixon’s presidency? Or did Watergate destroy their marriage? Gaslit suggests each incident was caused and consumed by the other, Nixon and the Mitchells stuck on a path shaped like a figure 8 and lined with explosives. ![]()
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