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California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown complained: "I have been the victim of the filthiest campaigning I have seen in 20 years of public office." Cried his opponent, Republican Richard Nixon: "I am the object of the most massive campaign of fear and smear in the history of California elections...
...hypocrisy, nurtured by hate," and that Cox is a "turncoat," since he once endorsed Johnson for President at a Democratic rally. Cox took this as a dastardly accusation and cried: "John Connally couldn't buy his way into office, now he is trying to blast in with smear tactics...
...Spies & Smears. Anguished cries of "smear" have come from both candidates-with considerable cause. Democrats, for example, have launched a whispering campaign that reads the most sinister implications into a 1956 loan of $205,000 to Nixon's brother, Donald, by a firm owned by Defense Contractor Howard Hughes. On the other side, many G.O.P. county headquarters have been selling a 50? booklet by an alleged onetime FBI counterspy, which, among many other things, charges that "Governor Pat Brown, over the years, has established an unchallengeable record of collaborating with and appeasing Communists from top to bottom." Both candidates...
...Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
Using fallacious terms betrays your contemptible prejudice and bigotry against Spain and Franco. You can write nothing about this nation without smear and vilification. (THE REV.) WARREN C. LILLY, S.J. St. Luke's Catholic Church Lake Worth...