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California casualties swoop down dead with more speed and color and frequency than any other state's: Upton Sinclair, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Goodwin Knight, William Knowland, Pierre Salinger, and of course, Richard Nixon in 1962. It was Jerry Brown's father, cheerful stumbly Pat Brown who beat Nixon for the governorship that year, only to lose to Ronald Reagan the next time around. There is no security in California politics-Pat Brown says that he "rubbed his hands in glee" at the thought of running against the "fading, aging actor." Perhaps that is why the young Brown, with...
Reagan always had a casual interest in politics, but he did not become actively involved until his film career began declining after World War II. He regards himself as a reformed "hemophiliac liberal." Indeed as late as 1950 he campaigned for Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas against Richard Nixon in their bitter Senate race. It seems likely, however, that in Reagan's early years, his political opinions were less his own than a reflection of those held by the people around him: his father, who was a New Deal Democrat, and the liberal men and women of Hollywood...
...Arnold, Nixon's first press secretary in Congress. In his memoir of the former President's early political career, Back When It All Began, Arnold tells of a Democratic Congressman who handed over a $1,000 personal check to Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas. The donor: John F. Kennedy. "He explained that the check should be used in Nixon's campaign for Senator," writes Arnold, "and that its intention was partly due to admiration of Nixon and partly due to a preference for [then] Congressman Nixon over Congresswoman Douglas ..." Arnold says that...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, LL.D., former Democratic Congresswoman from California...
Unchallenged for re-election in 1948, Nixon raised his sights in 1950 and ran for the Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress. It would be, he said, a "rocking, socking campaign." That was putting it mildly. Nixon issued a "pink sheet" showing that Douglas and Vito Marcantonio, a Communist-lining Congressman from New York's East Harlem, had cast 354 identical votes in the House. A lot of others had voted with Marcantonio on many issues, including Nixon, who sided with him 112 times out of roughly 200 votes. Still, the tactic earned Douglas a label...