Word: smear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caught the first heckling about the fund just as his train was about to leave Marysville. "Tell us about the $16,000!" yelled a man on the fringe of the crowd. "Hold the train! Hold the train!" shouted Nixon. Then he launched into a reckless, belligerent counteroffensive, blaming the "smear" on the "Communists and the crooks in the Government," and declaring that Democratic Candidate John Sparkman has his wife on the Government payroll...
...obscene parrot" of a woman named Ma Curry, who wanted to turn Vardon Hall into a hotel. As a kind of madam for a clientele whose tastes are right out of Krafit-Ebing, Ma Curry has a bit of dirt on the distinguished Bernard Sands and is waiting to smear him at the right moment...
Whether or not the American people decide to turn their backs on Richard Nixon, he cannot shake off the large aura of unethicalness that $18,000 has placed above his brow. All the enumerations and all the charges of smear and all the evidence of the catholicity of his practise may prove he is clean in intention, but they do not diminish the unwholesome odor that a privately endowed slush fund always radiates...
...televised appeal to the people Tuesday night, Nixon said, "when an ordinary politician is accused, he either ignores or denies it." Nixon has tried to do both. First, he dodged, denouncing the expose as a "deliberate smear attempt by persons intent on perpetuating the present administration in power." He overlooked the fact that many of the newspapers urging his withdrawal were enthusiastically supporting Eisenhower. He forgot that the original story about his fund was a simple reportorial job--in fact it followed with Nixon's own campaign principle: "I will not smear, but if the record itself smears...
...projected to the conclusion that this modern Munchausen has concocted 24 falsehoods about every person on whom he has unleashed his yelping pack of lies. Projecting this calculation further, it can be estimated that during the past two years it has suited the purposes of Colonel Pearson to smear at least 2,000 persons . . . It mathematically follows that Colonel Pearson has manufactured . . . 48,000 units of mendacity. That is mass production on a massive scale! The miracles of mass production achieved by General Motors sink into insignificance...