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A half-century of political dirty tricks
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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 799268" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011305693.html" target="_blank">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011305693.html</a></p><p></p><p> Nixon always believed he was the true winner of the 1960 campaign. He called the Kennedys "the most ruthless group of political operators ever mobilized" and said they "approached campaign dirty tricks with a roguish relish" that "overcame the critical faculties of many reporters." </p><p> Indeed, the mysterious break-in to recover Nixon's incriminating financial documents convinced him that such burglaries were standard practice in national politics. Nixon vowed that he would never be caught unprepared again, and he ultimately established his own corps of hard-nosed operatives to carry out espionage and sabotage, which culminated in the botched break-in a dozen years later at the Watergate office of the Democratic Party. </p><p> A half-century afterward, Washington still lives with the residue of the Kennedys' little-known dirty trick, which helped unleash our modern scandal culture and continues to influence politics and media today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 799268, member: 12952"] [url]www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011305693.html[/url] Nixon always believed he was the true winner of the 1960 campaign. He called the Kennedys "the most ruthless group of political operators ever mobilized" and said they "approached campaign dirty tricks with a roguish relish" that "overcame the critical faculties of many reporters." Indeed, the mysterious break-in to recover Nixon's incriminating financial documents convinced him that such burglaries were standard practice in national politics. Nixon vowed that he would never be caught unprepared again, and he ultimately established his own corps of hard-nosed operatives to carry out espionage and sabotage, which culminated in the botched break-in a dozen years later at the Watergate office of the Democratic Party. A half-century afterward, Washington still lives with the residue of the Kennedys' little-known dirty trick, which helped unleash our modern scandal culture and continues to influence politics and media today. [/QUOTE]
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