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Are We Crazy To Think Putin Is Crazy?

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Dick Tuck - The Person Who Drives Richard Nixon Crazy

Dick tuck is really the person who drives richard nixon crazy. He devotes his career to sort of launching harmless, but highly annoying tricks against richard n Nixon's various campaigns. Dick tuck gets pregnant black women to march around nixon's hotel wearing nixon's the one tea shirts a he gets signs made in chinese for people to hold up when nixon goes campaigning in chinatown in california. At one point, all of these pictures from the campaign event actually have these insulting phrases about nixon in the background. That mentality inspires and feeds this dark, paranoid mind set that permeates and drives nixon - which ultimately creates the environment in which watergate

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