Sorry, but I think that one's interred with Drew Pearson's lying body ..... even in death, he still lies. It was his genius, to defend his fellow-traveling Communists against their detractors by smearing critics viciously, even taking hits from libel judgments and then going right back to lying about people. He was absolutely dedicated to lying.
Drew is a legend.
MY point was the use of disinformation and dirty tricks that Nixon was infamous for using.
Nixon is used as an example in the wiki entry, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_tricks