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Good piece of history 159.105.80.141 12:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC) What do you mean the author of the letter was never found? Donald Segretti! If it isn 't perfectly clear from the cagey wording in All the President's Men, it was widely known by the time the Watergate scandal was out in the open. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isdnip (talk • contribs) 14:52, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Dirty Tricks"

Dirty Tricks is quite an Anglocentric expression, the correct American expression at the time, as well documented in Woodward and Bernstein's "All The Presidents Men", is of course the cruder expression "Ratfucking".

What?

I don't understand: how is the letter related to the speech, and why would he be so upset about it? All it says about the letter is that he calls French-Canadians "Canucks" (I admit that I don't see why that's a big deal when Canada built a fighter jet they themselves named the CF-100 Canuck...you don't see America building the F-19 Niggerjet, do you?), and then he's crying publicly/furious because they had insulted his wife. Where does his wife come into the picture? It would be nice if it gave a little context. Presumably the letter said more than the article covers. AnnaGoFast (talk) 05:06, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Revert questionably sourced edits

I've attempted to undo this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canuck_letter&oldid=742454116 . The sources used to justify the changes are questionable at best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AConcernedReader 2343243 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Glaring Lack of Sources

The half-paragraph "The CBS Evening News showed Muskie's face contorted with emotion. Muskie maintained that if his voice cracked, it cracked from anger; Muskie's antagonist was the same editor who referred to him in the 1968 election as "Moscow Muskie", and called him a flip-flopper. The tears, Muskie claimed, were actually snow melting on his face. Jim Naughton of The New York Times, standing immediately at Muskie's feet, could not confirm that Muskie cried." references several disparate pieces of information and attributes none of them. Who put this here? Where is this coming from? Can we fix this? 100.16.61.174 (talk) 05:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Forgery

I removed a claim in the opening sentence that the Canuck letter was a "forged letter" − while the story was forged, the wording here implied that the letter was also forged.

Sending a letter using a pseudonym is just as much a "forgery" as the letter here was. I am not excusing what happened, just ensuring that the depiction of the event is truthful. Owen214 (talk) 04:39, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]