Word: smears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maggie's most righteous indignation (and her finest hour in public life) was reserved for the late Joe McCarthy, in her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech. It was the first major address of Freshman Smith, and the first outcry in the Senate against McCarthy's campaign of smear and innuendo. While scowling Joe McCarthy listened from a nearby desk, Maggie denounced him for debasing the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination, sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity ... I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory...
...commend your organization for the fine examples of the "sophisticated smear" technique, which you are so ably employing against the Democratic candidate, his family, friends, and hair...
TIME CORRESPONDENTS SEEM TO HAVE LEANED TOO HEAVILY ON REPORTS FROM THE GUTTER IN THEIR STORY ABOUT THE CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED OF JORDAN. THE INTENSE SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA AND POLITICAL RIVALRIES IN THE AREA ARE TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND A BREAKTHROUGH TO SMEAR WITH FALSE RUMORS H. M. KING HUSSEIN AND HIS MOST BENEVOLENT AND SUCCESSFUL MONARCHY. THIS, I AM SORRY TO SAY, IS THE TRAP INTO WHICH YOUR REPORTERS HAVE BLINDLY FALLEN. I THINK IF THEY HAD INVESTIGATED MORE CAREFULLY THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND EMIR MOHAMMED IS AS RESPONSIBLE AND NO MORE ROWDY THAN AN AVERAGE 19-YEAR...
...right to put Scotty Reston on the cover (he has been my favorite columnist for years); it's all right to put polka dots on his necktie; but it's all wrong to smear them on his face and make him look as if he has leprosy...
...Last fortnight the word leaked out that George Belknap, the Democratic National Committee's director of voter analysis, had issued a secret party warning against "reckless schemes which could make Nixon a martyr and our campaign a smear ... A frontal attack on Nixon's character . . . would almost certainly lose votes...