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CREEP en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory, historical) Acronym of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
   alt of Committee to Re-elect the President
   alt of which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection
   • While presidential elections have been marred by mudslinging since the early Republic, these USC alums deployed a particular type of dirty tricks: what became known as “ratf--king,” or the use of unscrupulous tactics to interfere with the campaigns of opponents. The tactics pioneered by members of Trojans for Representative Government and later CREEP set a precedent for the sort of organized political sabotage that has become commonplace today in a digital world, especially for Republicans. 2024 August 8, Jonathan van Harmelen, “The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024:

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CRP