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lose, and he did not want to be a loser. >> the democratic nomination was a horse race, and in the beginning the front-runner was muskie. george mcgovern was the weakest of the candidates. one of the dirty tricks that the nixon team used was the canuck letter. >> nixon's re-election committee sent a fake letter. >> the white house wanted to undermine muskie's appeal in new hampshire by associating muskie with some language about people of french-canadian heritage. the issue was the word "canuck." the muskie campaign did not write that letter. but at the time muskie felt that being associated with a letter that described a very important bloc of voters in new hampshire as canucks was a disaster for his campaign. and he went public to deny any