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...Helen Gahagan Douglas...
...host spot on Washington's midday talk show Panorama. Martha, liberally divesting herself of opinions, condemned streaking, praised Governor Wallace, attacked the nation's schools for being overly psychoanalytical, and deplored conditions in veterans' hospitals. In between, she conducted a few interviews, asking ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas how she felt about the Red-scare smear campaign that Richard Nixon used to defeat her in 1950. Said Douglas: "I woke up the next morning a free person and found that I had been sincere with myself." With ex-Housewife Pat Loud she discussed the lack of neighborliness...
...sharp Los Angeles criminal lawyer and a cunning, bare-knuckled politician who first met Nixon during the 1946 congressional campaign and advised him to depict his opponent, Jerry Voorhis, as an ally of Communism. Chotiner planned a similar strategy for Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Chotiner advised Nixon at the time of his famous "Checkers" speech in 1952, but their relationship was temporarily dissolved in 1956 when Chotiner was called before a Senate subcommittee to explain his dealings with clothing manufacturers accused of Government kickbacks. He reappeared on the White House staff...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, 72, the former actress whom her opponent in the 1950 California Senate race dubbed the "Pink Lady" because of her supposed links with the Communist Party ("[She] is pink right down to her underwear,"declared Richard Nixon), has turned up again, on the cover of Ms. magazine...
...knew what he liked and what he did not. Richard Nixon fell into the second category. As Tuck recalls it, the pair first met in a classic encounter that would shape their future relationship. While a student at Santa Barbara, Tuck was working for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in her 1950 campaign against Nixon for a seat in the U.S. Senate. "There was an absent-minded professor who knew I was in politics and forgot the rest," says Tuck. "He asked me to advance a Nixon visit." With that opportunity, Tuck's career of pranksterism was launched. He hired...