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Jun 19, 2012 · By Kate Dailey. BBC News, Washington. The year 1972 was a defining year in American history but also a pivotal one for American women - with changes in the nation as a whole reflected in the...
Apr 25, 2022 · The Most Talked About Woman in Washington. Watergate Scandal. Martha, a conservative and flamboyant socialite from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was the wife of John Mitchell, the attorney general and...
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Jun 17, 2012 · Women of Watergate. In 1972, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began to investigate and expose all the president's men involved in the Watergate scandal. But as their book by the same name...
- She wanted to be an actor. Martha Beall was born in 1918 in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County. Her father was a cotton broker, and her mother a speech and drama teacher.
- Her work as a secretary took her to Washington DC. Mitchell received a BA from the University of Miami in history, then became a school teacher for a year in Alabama before deciding it wasn’t for her.
- She married an army officer. In Washington, Mitchell met US army officer Clyde Jennings. They were married in 1946 in Pine Bluff, then moved to New York.
- She remarried a New York attorney. In 1957, Mitchell met and married John N. Mitchell, a high-earning New York attorney, who she described as impressive because of his ‘suaveness and intellect.’
Feb 12, 2020 · In her memoir, Jill Wine-Banks talks about confronting Nixon White House insiders on the witness stand, enduring sexism in the courtroom and how the Watergate probe differs from Trump's...
Sep 20, 2019 · Wine-Banks, the only female attorney appointed to the Watergate trial team, was a young, whip-smart go-getter who was thrust into the national spotlight when she cross-examined President Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods about the partially erased tapes subpoenaed during the Watergate scandal.
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Together with Venable partner Courtney Sullivan, Jill will explore her new book, The Watergate Girl, which details her experiences as the only woman on the team that prosecuted the highest-ranking White House officials involved in the Watergate scandal.
