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Tricky Dick. A sobriquet for former president Richard Nixon that may have its roots in an Irish-American nickname for an- other politician named Richard. My grandmother spoke of a New York ward heeler named Tricky Dick, but she may have meant Slippery Dick Connolly, comptroller for the Tweed Ring. In any case, James Joyce named a politician Tricky Dick Tier- ney in his short story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” (1914), and it is not inconceivable that it was a felicitous Irish turn of speech, one of so many that came to New York with Irish immigration. |