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...substance. Nixon's recent cross-country swing was an engineered spectacle that started with his speech in the Oval Office, sped south to Florida, then on to New Orleans and the specially selected VFW audience, and came to rest by the Pacific. It was supposed to be a triumphal march from coast to coast, an antidote to Watergate. It failed because of Nixon's nervousness and because it was a hollow concept...
...ready to celebrate. Here he was riding down "the Avenue," leading his triumphal parade to the White House. There was Pat on the Inaugural stand, hugging Mamie, and here was Nixon sitting in a quiet corner of the White House, tooling his Inaugural Address. They hung where Nixon could see them every morning when he strode over from the mansion to go to work...
After landing at Rome's Ciampino airport, Perón greeted a moderately enthusiastic crowd of fellow Argentines with a smiling "?Bueno, bueno!" But it was not exactly a triumphal arrival. Among those absent was Argentina's anti-Peronist ambassador to Rome; he was at the Italian foreign office demanding to know why Perón, who is not a head of state, had been met at the airport by the public relations head of the government-run broadcasting system. The answer was that the p.r. man was a good friend...
Four years later, in 1970, Guru Maharaj Ji inaugurated his international mission with a triumphal ride through Delhi in a golden chariot, trailed by miles of elephants, camels and devotees. In 1971 the master's American premies (loved ones) heralded his advent in the U.S. with a press release stating: "He is coming in the clouds with great power and glory, and his silver steed will drift down at 4 p.m. at Los Angeles international airport, TWA Flight 761." That was enough to attract a coterie of guru buffs and various other seekers. In little over a year their...
With one hand holding a torch that resembles a melted ice cream cone and the other clutching an enormous glossy breast, she is perched on a bar stool with an American flag between her legs. In a triumphal pose she stares down as a new god of America's reproductive process. This is disgust tinged with humor similar to Pop art of the early...