front-runner was muskie. george mcgovern was the weakest of the candidates. one of the dirty tricks that the nixon team used was the canuck letter. nixon s re-election committee sent a fake letter. the white house wanted to undermine muskie s appeal in new hampshire by associating muskie with some language about people of french canadian heritage. the issue was the word canuck. the muskie campaign did not write that letter. but at the time, muskie felt that being associated with a letter that described a very important bloc of voters in new hampshire as canucks was a disaster for his campaign. and he went public to deny any responsibility for the letter. it was snowing that day. and the snow fell on his eyebrows and then melted, and it
to win. nixon and musky were neck and neck. nixon feared he was going to lose, and he did not want to be a loser. the democratic nomination was a horse race, and in the beginning the front-runner was musky. george mcgovern was the weakest of the candidates and one of the dirty tricks that the nixon team used was the canuck letter. nixon s re-election committee sent a fake letter. the white house wanted to undermine musky s appeal in new hampshire by associated muskie with some language about people of french canadian heritage. the sword canuck. the muskie campaign did not write that letter. at the time muskie felt being associated with a letter that
responsibility for the letter. it was snowing that day, and the snow fell on his eyebrows and then melted, and it gave the impression that he was crying as he was explaining that he was not responsible for what became known as the canuck letter. and he lost political gain. that ended his campaign for president. i have made the decision, therefore, to withdraw from the remaining presidential primaries. i do so with regret, but i have no choice. the nixon white house and the committee for the re-election of the president really did undermine the democratic principle of free elections in this country. the mechanics of setting up the re-election committee actually because they had no lawyer a lot of that fell to my office. but haldeman said you ve got to find a general counsel, your office can t take this
described a very bloc of voters in new hampshire as canucks was a disaster for his campaign, and he went public to deny any responsibility for the letter. it was snowing that day, and the snow fell on his eyebrows and then melted, and it gave the impression that he was crying as he was explaining that he was not responsible for what became known as the canuck letter, and he lost political gain. that ended his campaign for president. i have made the decision, therefore, to withdraw from the remaining presidential primaries. i do so with regret, but i have no choice. the nixon white house and the committee for the re-election of the president really did undermine the democratic principle of free elections in this country. and the mechanics are setting up the re-election committee actually because i had no lawyer.
lose, and he did not want to be a loser. the democratic nomination was a horse race, and in the beginning the front-runner was muskie. george mcgovern was the weakest of the candidates. one of the dirty tricks that the nixon team used was the canuck letter. nixon s re-election committee sent a fake letter. the white house wanted to undermine muskie s appeal in new hampshire by associating muskie with some language about people of french-canadian heritage. the issue was the word canuck. the muskie campaign did not write that letter. but at the time muskie felt that being associated with a letter that described a very important bloc of voters in new hampshire as canucks was a disaster for his campaign. and he went public to deny any