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The Nixon White House discussed a few ways to split the Democrats in the 1972 election. One was to secretly pump 5 million dollars into the campaign of the anti-war candidate, Eugene McCarthy. Another was to secretly finance a black candidate for President. Names included Jesse Jackson, Shirley Crisholm, Carl Stokes and Julian Bond*. There are also likely other things they thought of but never carried out, but I'm unaware of them specifically, so if you know anything else, feel free to bring it up.

So what if the Republicans did either of these, or both, to sew dissent within the Democrats, and to divide them?
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