Word: smearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...
...that Brown was soft on Communism was ridiculous. Sensing defeat, Nixon flailed out in a last-minute fury. On election eve, he appeared on television-with his wife and two teen-age daughters at his side-claimed in persecuted tones that he had been the victim of the worst smear cam paign in California history...
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...