All Richard Nixon, all the time

"Can you imagine what this man could have been had somebody loved him?" Henry Kissinger, on Richard Nixon

[oldshowbiz]

An underground newspaper headline. 1970.

[deathstardroid]

icandrawthat 17.

[fuckyeahbarbarastanwyck]

[mrextrakool]

Doomsday Clock #6 Truly Laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48QCDmqGGg

[annoyinglyperfectartisan]

John Ford with President Richard Nixon

[oldshowbiz]

jealousy of David Frost…

[richardnixonlibrary]

It’s #NationalSunglassesDay!  We have no photos of Richard Nixon wearing sunglasses. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Frankly, we’re not sure one even exists. We do, however, have these stylish shades in our museum collection. We wish we could wear them!!!

[everythingkennedy]

Jacqueline Kennedy tunes in the television in her home in Hyannis Port, Mass., Sept. 26, 1960, just before her husband John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon were to enter into a nationally telecast debate. 

[cursedbycreativity]

Vote Robot Nixon sticker - Futurama by fsociety (2.99 USD) http://ift.tt/1LjQHjq

[underbridgethings]

In the case of Spirette, I understand her shoes match her money bags.

[obaronsblog]

Welcome to Nixon High.

This is the introduction to our”Underbridge Internet” strip over a year ago, last November.

It was sometime later, if Minespatch (Ariel Baron) asked if we could do a parody of “Monster High” with Nixon High.  If anybody isn’t familiar with “Monster High” they are dolls inspired by the monster of legend and screen, often where a daughter is used in place of a famous monster supposedly as the father (or mother or whatever. Of course Universal isn’t involved. Interestingly Universal Studios would rather sue people for attempting to do anything with their famous monsters, than do anything themselves with them at all.  Instead they would rather do reboots and makeovers, which simply don’t appeal to the fans of the classic monsters, while failing to capture the imagination of people the way characters they’d had going back decades do.  So when I wanted a toy for our lovable psychotic mad scientist assistant Laurie Peters, I decided that she would probably adore the “Nixon High Dolls”

Going Back to ”Monster High” I would like to give a shout out to Arron Bordner, and his “Monster High School” Comic. Arron Bordner has been doing descendants of monsters going to a high school since 2001.  Mattel’s Monster High line didn’t even come out till 2010, so Bordner’s campus has been a round a lot longer, and being twisted, Bordner’s stories simply appeal a lot more to me that the Barbie Doll’s wearing Halloween costumes, which are simply too bland for my taste.  If you want a taste of young Monster’s facing the genuine terrors of going to High School, give his Comic Books a look over.

[alldickallthetime]

*squints eyes*  I would be interested in purchasing the Nixon High dolls.

[electronicsquid]

Republican National Convention in Chicago

(Stan Wayman. 1960)

[alldickallthetime]

What the current field of presidential hopefuls could learn from Tricky Dick.

Interesting oped

[alldickallthetime]

To audiences, they’re a precision dance troupe — a line of sky-high legs and synchronized smiles. But as any Rockette will tell you, theirs isn’t just a job. It’s a legacy. Some 200 retired Rockett...

I’m still around, folks, just dropped off the face of the earth. But much like Robot Nixon, I’m BACK

[bluev4lentine]

Bernie is the real deal.

[fenrislorsrai]

‘Last of the President’s Men’ sheds light on Nixon’s vulnerability, motivation

In “The Last of the President’s Men,” journalist Bob Woodward offers a whole new understanding of Richard Nixon. Using interviews with Nixon’s deputy assistant, Alexander Butterfield, and thousands of documents, Woodward reveals previously unexplored sides of the president. Woodward and Butterfield discuss with Judy Woodruff the Nixon we didn’t see.

BOB WOODWARD: And there’s this handwritten memo that was in Alex’s 20 boxes from Nixon to Kissinger on a top-secret memo saying, we have had 10 years of air operations in Vietnam. What’s the result? Zilch. Nothing. It’s been a failure.

Now, just the night before, Nixon had told CBS News that it was very, very effective. And you go into this, and you connect it with the dots of the tapes and other documents, and you see what was driving Nixon with the bombing wasn’t to win the war, but the bombing was popular, according to the polls, and so Nixon intensified more bombing because it won the election. And Kissinger actually tells Nixon, that’s when you won the election.

And you read this, and it’s shocking and chilling, when you see the deceit here for the purpose of winning reelection. It’s the other side of Watergate.

[electronicsquid]

Richard M. Nixon and Senator Everett Dirksen looking uncomfortable

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1965)