Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Canuck letter was a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader, published February 24, 1972, two weeks before the New Hampshire primary of the 1972 United States presidential election. It implied that Senator Edmund Muskie, a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, held prejudice against Americans of French-Canadian descent. The letter's immediate effect was to compel the candidate to give a speech in front of the newspaper's offices, known simply as \"the crying speech\". The letter's indirect effect was the implosion of Muskie's candidacy.In October 1972, FBI investigators revealed that the Canuck Letter was part of the dirty tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by CREEP, the Committee to Re-Elect the President."@en }
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- Canuck_letter abstract "The Canuck letter was a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader, published February 24, 1972, two weeks before the New Hampshire primary of the 1972 United States presidential election. It implied that Senator Edmund Muskie, a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, held prejudice against Americans of French-Canadian descent. The letter's immediate effect was to compel the candidate to give a speech in front of the newspaper's offices, known simply as \"the crying speech\". The letter's indirect effect was the implosion of Muskie's candidacy.In October 1972, FBI investigators revealed that the Canuck Letter was part of the dirty tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by CREEP, the Committee to Re-Elect the President.".