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...image of a sick and haggard Richard M. Nixon may have shifted enough voters to tip the election to John F. Kennedy...
MacKay suggested that the night of the first televised national debate, between John F. Kennedy '40 and Richard Nixon, was a watershed event because it established the importance of television to campaigns...
What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare--like Washington coloring books--there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's The Buck Stops Here is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 Presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St. George's So You Want to Be President? offers such tips as "It might help if your name is James." The kids' sentimental favorite: When John & Caroline Lived in the White House...
...sure, the mood is leavened by the jaunty opener, "Lincoln Town," and the gleeful abandon of "Gone" (Gone/like a Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of fatalistic work ethic in evidence throughout, but in this lonesome congregation titles like "Take It Down," "Take It Back" and "Lift Every Stone" are exhortations to bear witness to unhappiness, not salvation. It takes the unabashed spiritualism of "God's Golden Eyes" and "Before I Go" at the album's conclusion...
...smarter than most politicians and worked harder. In contrast to the agonies of the U.S., struggling through Vietnam under Richard Nixon in those days, Trudeau's Canada was an energetic, mostly hopeful place, enlightened with debates about important things and enlivened by a new sense of style. Some of that faded, as did Trudeau's verve, as his private life went wrong...