Where the Clinton campaign tears a page out of Richard Nixon’s playbook
May.13, 2008 in
Barack Obama, Election 2008
In 1950, Richard Nixon ruined Helen Gahagan Douglas, a passionate progressive California Congresswoman who was running for the Senate. Douglas, originally an up-and-coming Hollywood star, turned to politics after spending time in Central California with the migrant farm workers flowing in from Oklahoma and elsewhere. She was well-respected in the Congress, on track [...]
