Showing posts with label Mick Guilford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mick Guilford. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Kennedy's Dirty Tricks?

While the Episconixonian jury is still out on Mark Feldstein and his new book about Richard Nixon and Jack Anderson -- the author questionably asserted during a radio interview that Nixon had pocketed $100,000 from Howard Hughes -- this Feldstein article alleging campaign shenanigans against Nixon in 1960 deserves a look:
In one of the least-known chapters of 20th-century political history, Kennedy operatives secretly paid off an informant and set in motion a Watergate-like burglary that sabotaged Nixon's campaign on the eve of the election.
Hat tip to Mick Guilford