Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns by Cummins Joseph

Author:Cummins, Joseph [Cummins, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781594745843
Publisher: Random House Inc Clients
Published: 2012-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

WILSON’S STOLEN VALISE The only hint of a romantic scandal in this campaign came when Woodrow Wilson’s longtime friendship with a lovely divorcée named Mary Allen Peck was made public knowledge. Many Democrats suspected (but never proved) that Republican operatives stole a valise of Wilson’s, hoping to find incriminating letters and concoct a scandal. No letters were ever produced, but Wilson (who was married) apparently thought they might be. He solemnly assured an aide that “we Southerners like to write mush” but explained that nothing had gone on between him and Peck.

This was probably true. As Theodore Roosevelt, who could be quite mean, said, “It wouldn’t work. You can’t cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts so much like an apothecary clerk.”

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