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Martha's words of prophesy and wisdom startled and fascinated a nation 50 years ago- and now this Cassandra of the 1970s has passed from the public consciousness into obscurity."You know, I can't prove I've been born," said Mrs. Mitchell. But how lucky for us she was. And how unfortunate that she had to call "from (her) upstairs bathroom so John wouldn't know (she) was calling." The Mitchell marriage is, in many ways, a metaphore for the problems between the genders at the cusp of women's liberation- the woman wanting to escape the home, reaching out by way of the telephone not only to create a place of her own but to point out the wrongdoings and improprieties of the male establishment- her husband, as attorney general, an ultimate symbol of patriarchy at its worst.
Who else in the Nixon administration, or close to it, was able to say what all of America knew about Vietnam? Yes, Mrs. Mitchell, the Vietnam War stunk. While she was misguided on integration (how, exactly, could we have "worked out the… Read More
