When Edmund Muskie recently told a group of black community leaders in Los Angeles that "if a black man were on the ticket, we would both lose," few of the ensuing denunciations were as piously outraged as Richard Nixon's. He scornfully condemned his potential challenger for committing "a libel on the American people." The President apparently forgot that in 1968 he had made a similar comment about the possibility of a Jewish running mate. According to Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Dave Murray, during a pre-convention off-the-record meeting with several reporters and editors, Nixon...
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