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Eisenhower can probably take substantial credit for effectively silencing McCarthy, and yet Nixon's first campaign was a miniature of McCarthy's tactics. And in 1950, in his successful race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon hid his own record by showing that his opponent had voted 353 times with Representative Vito Marcantonia, and was therefore "soft on Communism." Nixon failed to point out that on most of these votes Marcantonia was merely going along with the Democratic majority, and that on a key issue like Nixon's vote against economic aid to Korea five months before...
Armed with his Hiss case success, Nixon ran for the Senate in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, and won by a 680,947-vote margin...
Averted Gaze. Subject to all of the traditional tensions between northern and southern Californians (as well as the natural political stresses), Nixon and Knowland never have been close. Real coolness developed in 1950 during Nixon's tough campaign for the Senate against Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. Both Senator Knowland and Governor Warren considered Nixon something of an upstart. They offered him no help, gazed steadily the other way. Nixon told friends: "When the going gets hard, you learn who your friends are not-and Warren and Knowland certainly...
...last week at Columbia University, when kidnaping freshmen becomes a popular extracurricular activity, Freshman H. Gordon Butler, 20, of East Providence, R.I., unwittingly set something of a record. One afternoon, a group of sophomores, including Peter Douglas, 19-year-old son of Actor Melvyn Douglas and ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, dragged Butler to a car and drove him down to the Douglas apartment on Park Avenue. They bound his hands, taped his mouth, wrapped his face and head with bandages, and whisked him off to La Guardia airport. There they plunked him on a plane, strapped...
...group had banded together before Nixon's senatorial campaign. They were all ardent admirers of Nixon, the young Quaker Congressman, and wanted him to run for the Senate. They raised some $25,000 for his campaign against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. "After he was elected," explained a fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel...