Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 1213 Editor's Choice: 5
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True feminist icon: Marha "The Mouth" Mitchell who tried to alert the press to Nixon's trickery
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Martha probably had her own reasons for whistle-blowing on her husband, John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General. She rang reporters to claim that the Attorney General was involved in Watergate (which he was) and also claimed that she was being kept a political prisoner - which probably meant she was under informal house arrest. A whispering campaign was started against her, insinuating that she was 0ff-her-rocker but though she was volatile, Martha Mitchell was telling the truth. She did not play the part of the submissive wife and I'm sure she would have loved the Internet, considering her propensity to use the phone. If Martha is still alive,Id hope that she 'd be as rebellious as she was then. Never a feminist in the accepted sense of the word, Martha "The Mouth" Mitchell certainly shook things up and a lot of the people in modern America's political life seem very insipid in contrast to her. You don't have to be an Ivy Leaguer, a lawyer (is everybody a lawyer in the US) or a columnist to have a vibrant personality and Marha Mitchell definitely had that.
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Blondeone: You're too taken over with the psychobabble - passive-aggressive and all that
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry for treading on your toes but I find your attitude just plain aggressive. JFK was in Ireland in June l963, shot the following November and maybe MY relatives' memories are as viable as those of YOUR relatives. Maybe his cousins in Co. Wexford would also like to give their opinions as Salon is a site which invites opinions, although you believe that I have NUN. Where are you getting your prejudices from? Talk about condescension.....You have a few pots on the boil so I'll let you stir away. I hope you're not getting too hot under the collar and that your reading of Freud, Jung or whoever it might be goes well for you. It's evening here now and it's time for me to take out the rosary beads and say my prayers.
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Blondeone, you do pester, don't you. Don't blame me for what the "Long Fellow" did or didn't do.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]As you so rightly say, Eddie (later Eamon) De Valera was born in New York and his paternity may have been Cuban Isn't serendipity a great thing, just as I was putting in a little reminder of JFK's intervention in Cuba. I gather you're a believer in the idea of "the sins of the fathers" because I must have had something to do with Eire's neutrality during WW11. One of my mother's relatives was a tail-gunner in the RAF and flew over Germany, I'm told, a woman relative was a nurse in Burma which was under threat from the Japanese. I don't want to know your family history but you came on, all snarling, at me about Irish neutrality although I was responding to a post from Uncle Fester, who never feels the need to be truculent or abusive. How was I to know that you were skulking out there, ready to have a go at me!
Incidentally, De Valera was a mathematician and looked on the war which started in September l939 between Germany and Britain with a cold and calculating gaze. Apart from knowing about my excrement - and that vulgar language offends my shell-like nun's ears - I must deduce that, in your all-knowing way, you also know that Northern Ireland was not neutral. I also hesitate to remind you that the U.S. did not enter the war against Nazi Germany in l939, not even l940, and did not react until attacked by Hirohito's Japan. I'm off to Vespers now and I'll offer up a little prayer for you and all your relatives, so that they can go around saying "Top o' the'mornin" on Monday.