Tag Archives: Murray Chotiner

Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady 5

I have three items for my write-up today on Greg Mitchell’s Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas—-Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950. 1.  As I said in my last post on Mitchell’s book, … Continue reading

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Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady 2

I have four items for my write-up today on Greg Mitchell’s Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas—-Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950.  It’s about Richard Nixon’s 1950 U.S. Senate campaign against liberal Democrat … Continue reading

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Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician 9

In my write-up today on Stephen Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician, I’ll talk some about Richard Nixon’s relationship with Dwight Eisenhower.  This will be based on what I have read so far in Ambrose’s book, however, not what … Continue reading

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The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years 15

I have two items for my write-up today on Irwin Gellman’s The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years, 1946-1952. 1.  One narrative that Gellman seeks to refute says that, in 1952, Nixon was waffling in whom he was supporting to … Continue reading

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The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years 12

There were two passages in my latest reading of Irwin Gellman’s The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years, 1946-1952 that stood out to me: 1.  Murray Chotiner worked for Richard Nixon when he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives … Continue reading

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