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Bauerle's “The Power of Doubled Words” [XVIII,2] mentions the reduplication tricky-dicky , applied to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
During the Watergate scandal President Nixon had to face an even more powerful combination, one that incorporated his own nickname in a double that ended with the negative diminutive - y . Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.