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Dick Tuck and dirty politics in American campaigns
A reflection on smear campaigns from Washington to Chicago highlights how opponents label leaders with patriotic, moral, or racial accusations. Dick Tuck, famed Democratic trickster, is cited among era examples of campaign pranks while experts discuss ethics, espionage, and the limits of dirty tactics in elections.
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North Carolina
Chicago
Big Bill Thompson
George Washington
John Adams
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Lincoln
Senate
America
Jefferson
Jackson
Harding
New York
Franklin Jones
Jones
McGovern
AFL Cio
George Meany
Walter Cronkite
Edmund Muskie
Drallery
Boston
James M. Curley
Dick Tuck
Ource
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John Kennedy
Walter E. Quigley
Quigley
Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
White House
Charles W. Colson
Carson
Lyndon Johnson
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
United Mine Workers Journal
West
Virginia
Detroit
Michigan Committee
Jack Gibbs
Cook County
Stephen C. Shadegg
FCPC
Archibald
Shadegg
Bruce Felkner
Dooley