Ode to Pine Bluff's Martha Mitchell

The Watergate heroine was born on September 2, 1918

This drawing of Martha Mitchell hangs in her Pine Bluff historic home. (Photo by Suzi Parker)

I was a political geek at an early age, thanks to Richard M. Nixon.

One of my earliest memories is twirling around the house at age 3 wearing a floppy white hat with “Nixon” stamped in red, white and blue. I didn’t know a Republican from a Democrat. I only knew …