You needn't be wrong to be called delusional
Just because they're out to get you doesn't prove you're not paranoid, says the latest edition of the psychiatrists' bible
President Nixon making his resignation speech in 1974. Martha Beall Mitchell’s claims of corruption in the White House were dismissed as the rantings of a mad woman. Photograph: Popperfoto
It's not clear who forcibly sedated her in 1972. It's not certain that she was admitted to a psychiatric ward in the following year. What's definite though is that many people thought she was mad as she ranted about conspiracies in the White House during eccentric phone calls to the press. Questions about Martha Beall Mitchell's sanity were encouraged by the Nixon administration, who consistently briefed against her and probably had her medicated against her will. But ultimately her claims were proven correct when the Watergate scandal broke./.../
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