“We want to give you a chance to talk to our candidate and to restate our demand that Pigasus be given Secret Service protection and be brought to the White House for his foreign policy briefing.”
Jerry Rubin at the nomination of Pigasus for president of the USA

“They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate a president and the people eat him.”
Pigasus nominators’ slogan

The nomination of the boar hog Pigasus for President of the United States by the Yippies had been the most “transcendentally lucid” political act of the twentieth century.

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