This was Richard Gregory 'Dick' Tuck (1924-2018), a Democratic Party operative who made a career of political pranks, specialising in tormenting Richard Nixon.The pair first crossed paths in 1950 when Tuck was a veteran studying political science at the University of , Santa Barbara. Tuck was working part-time for Helen Gahagan Douglas, a running against Nixon for the California seat. Nixon had tried to smear Douglas as a communist sympathiser.
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