Word: smearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply, Steinberg called the president's accusations "intellectually dishonest," and declared that he was not a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. He admitted Gallagher's right to object to the Observation Post's presentation of articles, but questioned his "right to use smear tactics as he has." He said that he was aware of the "Communist domination" of the youth festivals, but that they were "excellent mediums for students to get together" and that they "offered greater possibilities for peace...
...salvo of indignation. In Waco, Texas, a group of 72 Baptist ministers passed a resolution rebuking Truman "as a Christian, a Baptist, and a guest in our midst." In Washington, G.O.P. Chairman Thruston Morton (himself no slouch at name calling) described the Truman speech as despicable, degrading, a smear, low-road tactics, a back-alley campaign and a slur on the 35.5 million Americans who voted for Nixon in 1956. In a blistering telegram Morton called on Jack Kennedy "to disown Truman's attack and to apologize to the American people." Replied Kennedy during his TV debate: "Mr. Truman...
Taking the stand in his own defense, Publisher Lei-who never denied befriending Liu as a refugee-denied knowing that Liu was a Communist agent. The real issue, said Lei, was whether the government could get away with such a "smear" of honest critics. "All we wished to do is urge the government to implement peaceful reform in order to avoid bloodshed. If the charges against me can be substantiated, I need not mourn my personal fate. But I must mourn the future of my country...
...verifiable facts; and my way, I hope, will be the way of reasoned analysis." This is the historian's gambit, but the professor is so deeply committed to the Kennedy cause that he overlooks logical inconsistencies, relies on the unsupported generalization, and allows himself to stoop to political smear tactics...
...much in their personalities as in their policies and their parties, and yet Mr. Schlesinger devotes only a little more than a quarter of his polemic to this aspect of the campaign. For it is here that Schlesinger can score his strongest points without resort to the genteel smear and doubtful psychoanalytic generalizations. Those who argue that Kennedy and Nixon stand for the same things simply have not been following the campaign...