Video: Mrs. Mitchell telephones Thomas (at 7:00)

(Sunday, June 25, 1972) — Eight days after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, who was head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, called UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas again (see June 22) and asserts that she is a political prisoner in her own home.

“I’m leaving him until he decides to leave the campaign. It’s horrible to me… I’m not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on. If you could see me you wouldn’t believe it. I’m black and blue. I’m a political prisoner… They don’t want me to talk.”