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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 musky's appeal in new hampshire by associated muskie with some language about people of french canadian heritage. the sword canuck. the muskie campaign did not write that letter. at the time muskie felt being associated with a letter that described a very important bloc of voters in new york as canucks was a disaster for his campaign, and he went public to deny any responsibility for the letter. >> it was snowing that day, and the snow fell on his eyebrows and then melted, and it gave the impression that he was crying as he was explaining that he was not responsible for what became known as the canuck letter, and he lost political gain. >> that ended his campaign for president. >> i have made the decision,