Book: Nixon used ‘spies’ in first election, 26 years before Watergate

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Former President Richard Nixon pulled out his bag of “dirty tricks” long before the 1972 Watergate scandal, showing a preference for cheating during his first-ever political campaign, according to a forthcoming investigative biography.

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