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Richard Nixon was an aggressive political campaigner. At one point his allies conjured a group labeled "The Communist League of Negro Women Voters" to associate with and thus taint his opponent: "It was during [his 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas] that Americans first heard of 'Tricky Dick' Nixon. His campaign manager was [Murray] Chotiner, an early practitioner of negative campaigning who subsequently worked in every one of Nixon's campaigns until 1968. His Democratic opponent, a former singer and actress, was a liberal whom the *Book of Knowledge *ranked as one of the twelve smartest women in the world. Although a critic of HUAC and anticommunism, Douglas had moved toward the center of her party in recent years. Yet communism became the chief issue for the Nixon camp. This focus was not exceptional, as the 1950 campaign coincided with Senator Joseph McCarthy's (R-Wisc.) emergence on the national scene and his charges of 'Communists in the State Department.' McCarthy campaigned in California for Nixon. McCarthy's charges received further impetus following the outbreak of the Korean War in June. https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3709 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
