Obama, McCain face the smears and lies of politics
Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 2:56pm.
Enea Zhonga
WASHINGTON - Donald Segretti says there's no second place in politics. Candidates either win or lose. And, sometimes, dirty tricks play a part.
Segretti, a political operative for the Committee to Re-elect the President during Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, had a role in the Watergate scandal.
In 1974, he served 4½ months in prison after pleading guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal campaign literature.
Full text available to subscribers only.