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Dick Tuck & Political Mudslinging

Dick Tuck & Political Mudslinging. How One Man Made Richard Nixon’s Life A Living Hell. Dick Tuck & Political Mudslinging. The Art of Practical Joking.

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Dick Tuck & Political Mudslinging

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  1. Dick Tuck &Political Mudslinging How One Man Made Richard Nixon’s Life A Living Hell

  2. Dick Tuck & Political Mudslinging

  3. The Art of Practical Joking • You must have patience and let your victim suffer until exactly the right moment, when you can finally let them in on the joke you have played • On one hand, it is only human nature to be curious to see how far you can push a person…on the other is the fact you may actually turn your friend into an enemy

  4. Nixon-Douglas Senate Campaign • Tuck decided that he would undermine Nixon by getting himself hired as a campaign worker • Nixon had not planned to speak on the IMF • “Dick Tuck, you've made your last advance”

  5. 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debates • Those who listened to the debate felt Nixon won, but on camera Nixon looked tired, ragged and unshaven • “That's all right, Mr. Nixon…he beat you last night, but you'll win next time”

  6. Mack The Knife • “Oh, the shark has pretty teeth dear, and he shows em, pearly white, just a jack knife has macheath dear, and he keeps it way out of sight”

  7. Nixon Chinatown Rally • At a rally in Chinatown, Tuck distributed signs and fortune cookies that read “Welcome Nixon!” • Below the English welcome, a line of Chinese letters read “How about the Hughes loan?”

  8. Nixon’s Whistle Stop • Tuck dressed up as a train conductor and signaled a train to leave the station while Nixon was delivering a speech from its rear • “The Democrat Pixie of 1964”

  9. California State Senate • "Just wait till the dead vote comes in.“ • "The people have spoken, the bastards." TUCK

  10. Nixon’s The One! • The fodder this time was Nixon’s 1968 campaign slogan “Nixon’s the One!” • Tuck hired lots of pregnant women to show up at a Nixon rally waving “Nixon’s the One!” signs

  11. Nixon Paranoia • At one point, a huge shipment of buttons printed in Greek, Chinese, and Italian arrived at Nixon's campaign headquarters • Tuck hadn’t touched the buttons at all…

  12. Donald Segretti • Nixon wanted his campaign to develop a “Dick Tuck capability” • “Shows what a master Dick Tuck is...Segretti's hasn’t been a bit similar”

  13. Responsible for Watergate?!? • Tuck is mentioned in an October 1972 Oval Office tape when Nixon is speaking to H.R. Haldeman • “Dick Tuck did that to me…let's get out what Dick Tuck did!”

  14. Tuck’s Modern Take on Politics • “I never tried to be malicious…it's just the difference between altering fortune cookies to make a candidate look funny and altering State Department cables to make it look as if a former President were a murderer”

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