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...Feldberg's overall contention is that the Muskie campaign can only be characterized by its insidious deceitfulness. The basis for this argument revolves around a series of incidents in the New Hampshire primary which supposedly changed the heretofore clean campaign "into a cesspool of low-blows and innuendos...
...Feldberg's first charge of deceit centers on his implication that Senator Muskie's campaign disclosures in 1970 are "mostly irrelevant" because they only applied to the Maine Senate race. However, the truth of the matter is that in October 1970 Senator Muskie revealed funds that were slated for his presidential bid as well as the Senate race--a move none of his rivals followed...
...Feldberg closes his piece by resorting to cliches to suggest that Ed Muskie is the candidate of the "tough cigar-chomping con men" and bosses. This type of smear is unsubstantiated, deceitful and even smacks of desperation...
...purpose of this letter is not to attack Senator McGovern. It is meant, however, as a protest against the type of venomous half truths being used against Senator Muskie and which are coming out of certain parts of the McGovern camp. Mr. Feldberg's signed piece is typical of the self-righteous attitude of these attacks in its pretensions that the McGovern campaign is one which has a monopoly on virtue and political purity. This is simply...
...Muskie candidacy, just as much as George McGovern's, is based on an effort to oust the Nixon administration and unite America in pursuing the goals of progressive change in the 1970's. This new course if it is to suceed cannot be based on Feldberg's divisive type of self-righteousness...