In episode five, "Perestroika: Beyond Nelly", a nurse in the hospital is telling Belize about a movie she saw on television the night before. The movie was She (1935), in which the main character, known as "She Who Must Be Obeyed", was played by stage actress and future California Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, in her only movie role. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas later made an unsuccessful bid for the Senate in a race against Richard Nixon in 1950. Nixon, as a representative and senator, was a major figure in the anti-Communist Second Red Scare of 1947 to 1957, as was Roy Cohn. Nixon was able to successfully defeat Douglas, at least in part, by portraying her on the campaign trail as a Hollywood "pinko" (implying, falsely, that she was a communist, he nicknamed her "The Pink Lady," and she in return was the first to call him "Tricky Dick") so historians often point to the Nixon/Douglas campaign as the first time Nixon learned how to leverage anti-Communist panic into political capitol. The Nixon campaign also stooped to anti-Semitic tactics against Helen Gahagan Douglas when it had its volunteers place telephone calls to tell potential voters, "did you know that Helen Gahagan Douglas is married to a Jew?" (Douglas's husband was the Hollywood star Melvyn Douglas.)
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