Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a walking oratorical event, exhaling sulphurous prose on behalf of the Great Silent Majority. Attorney General John Mitchell's dour podsnappery as Southern strategist and antidissenter cheers the forces of law and order and dismays liberals. Mitchell himself has remained as invisible as before. But his wife Martha has emerged as one of the dominant figures on the Washington scene, and her tart tongue has enlivened a lot of cocktail parties (see box, page...
THIRTY years later, the blurb in the Pine Bluff, Ark., high school yearbook under the picture of the pretty blonde remains apt. Letting go after the march on Washington, Martha Mitchell told a television interviewer: "As my husband has said many times, some of the liberals in this country, he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Since Martha Mitchell's husband is the Attorney General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal...
Born and raised in Pine Bluff, Martha graduated from the University of Miami and taught school in Mobile, Ala. She quit teaching after only one year because, she says, "I despised it." During World War II, she married Clyde Jennings, but the marriage ended in divorce, as did Mitchell's first marriage. Martha and John met on a weekend in New York in the early '50s and were married several months later. While Mitchell was a $250,000-a-year Manhattan attorney, they lived in Rye, N.Y. Now they are ensconced in a $140,000 duplex in Washington...
...Martha, they want our opinions for a straw poll, He then turned to me and asked, "Are you working for one of the candidates or for a newspaper...
Originally, the inquest was to have begun Sept. 3 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. But Kennedy's lawyers argued that the inquest would not really be a neutral inquiry. They said that it would be an adversary proceeding in which Kennedy-under the guidelines set by District Court Judge James Boyle -would be denied crucial rights. Boyle had wanted to open the inquest to press coverage and to deny Kennedy's attorneys the right to cross-examine witnesses called by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. Therefore, Kennedy petitioned a higher court to order the inquest to be held...