Interesting historical tidbit…

John Mitchell was Nixon’s Attorney General. His wife was Martha Mitchell. She detested Nixon, knew a lot of reporters, and was quite happy to pass on leaks to them.

John Mitchell eventually shipped her back to California and had her watched by two security guards. The guards had orders to keep her isolated and not to let her near a phone.

When she heard about the Watergate arrests, she figured out what was going on and telephoned NYTimes reporter Helen Thomas. As the Martha Mitchell was talking to Thomas, Thomas heard Mitchell say something to the effect of “You just get away”. Then the phone went dead.

It turned out that one of the guards had ripped the phone out of the wall. Mitchell was then forcibly sedated for days.

The guard who ripped the phone from the wall was named Stephen King. He is currently Trump’s ambassador to The Czech Republic.

washingtonpost.com