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Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up

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Musky, a Nixon Campaigner, Is a Coward

Elmer wyatt was a retired cab driver when he was hired to spy on the musky campaign. One of his jobs as a volunteer was to ferry documents from muskys senate office to campaign headquarters. Voters in new hampshire got phone calls in the middle of the night from people claiming to be musky orders from harlem. The newspaper also ran an unflattering piece about musky's wife, which portrayed her as unladylike for telling off colar jokes and smoking grettes. In response to these attacks, musky delivered a speech in front of the newspapers offices. He called out the newspapers publisher by attacking me, by attacking my wife. Is fortune for him

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