They said she was crazy, a nd to be fair, she must have seemed crazy. Later, when she went public, Nixon loyalists tried to discredit her in the press as an unreliable alcoholic. LN: First, she was kept against her will in a California hotel for days, then she was forcibly tranquilized while being held down in her bed. MM: Literally held a prisoner within four walls. LN: Later, Martha would tell David Frost of the BBC everything that happened to her that weekend. MM: And that was the beginning of my being held a prisoner. >: Historians disagree on what exactly Martha really knew about Watergate, but in the aftermath of the burglary, she was treated by Nixon's men as someone who knew too much. Others simply called him Deputy President. Nixon called John Mitchell his most trusted friend and adviser. He was the Attorney General of the United States. Before that, Mitchell had an even bigger job. His name was John Mitchell, and in June of 1972, he was in charge of the committee to re-elect President Richard Nixon. >: It's a story about a woman named Martha Mitchell, who was at the time very famous, and whose life was destroyed in large part because of her proximity to the Watergate Conspiracy. It takes place in June of 1972 just a few days after five men broke into the Watergate office building in Washington D.C. LN: I'm going to start with a story that you've probably never heard. Speakers: LNÔøΩ Leon Neyfakh MMÔøΩ Martha Mitchell DFÔøΩ David Frost MalÔøΩ Male Slow Burn Podcast | S1/E1 Watergate: MARTHA (Transcript) Length: 24 mins We have provided the transcript below as a supplement. And we highly recommend you listen to it if you can. We are not associated with Slate Plus or its podcast Slow Burn we are just big fans. We assist those in the media to swiftly transcribe audio and video files so they can find that meaningful dialogue. Visit megaphone.Simon Says is an automated transcription service. If you haven’t please yet, subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Much of Wells’ work is out of print, but you can find one of her pieces in a collection called The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Also, a big tip of the hat to Rosemary Wells, the dental school instructor who in the 1970s began exploring the Tooth Fairy’s, ahem, roots. Thank you to Charles Duan, Jim Piddock, Purva Merchant, Hannah Morris, Laurie Leahy, Torie Bosch, and Rebecca Onion. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. This episode was edited by Jamie York. Derek John is Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts. This podcast was written by Willa Paskin, who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. In this episode, with the help of Tinkerbell, Santa Claus, and some savvy humans who are trying to exploit this strange creature’s untapped intellectual property, we’ll explore the origins of this childhood ritual, its durability-and its remarkable resistance to commercialization. This flying piece of folklore is alive and well in the 21st century, handed down to kids in whatever way their parents see fit. We pride ourselves on being grounded, rational beings, but flitting amongst us is a mystery: the Tooth Fairy. Go to to join Slate Plus today.ĭecoder Ring is now available on YouTube. You’ll be able to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads-and your support is crucial to our work. If you’re a fan of the show, sign up for Slate Plus. If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, you can email us at you haven’t yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you to: Jane Wilberding, Rachel Weinberger, Donald Shoup, Andrés Duany, Robert Davis, Micah Davis, Christy Milliken, Fletcher Isacks, Victor Benhamou, and Nina Pareja. Derek John is Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts. We had extra production from Patrick Fort and editing help from Joel Meyer. It was edited by Willa Paskin, who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. This episode was written by Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. We’ll explore how parking has quietly damaged the American landscape-and see what might fix it. In this episode, we’re going to hunt for parking, from the mean streets of Brooklyn to the sandy lots of Florida. It turns out our quest for parking has made some of our biggest problems worse. Slate’s Henry Grabar has spent the last few years investigating how our pathological need for car storage determines the look, feel, and function of the places we live. On the other, it seems like it’s never enough. On the one hand, we have paved an ungodly amount of land to park our cars. Parking is one of the great paradoxes of American life.
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