Title notwithstanding, naturally I’d seen nine of the ten videos here — never much bothered to look for Prescott Bush and don’t see that he adds much.  I gather Vanity Fair should have just cut to the chase and ran “Top 10 Nixon videos” — limit “Nixon tape” material to, oh, three perhaps?

The lyrics, as I listen to this, to a 1972 campaign jingle.  Study  them.  There will be a test at the end.

Reaching Out
To Find the Way
To Make Tomorrow
A Brighter Day
Making Dreams
Reality
More Than Ever Nixon Now For You and Me
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
He’s Made the Differerence
He’s Shown Us How
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
More than Ever
Nixon Now
Mister America, Nixon Now
Lead You Now
Across the Sea
Making Friends where Foes Used to Be
Giving ALL to Humanity
More than Ever Nixon Now for You and Me
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
He’s made the difference
He’s shown us how.
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
More than ever Nixon Now
Mister America, Nixon Now
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
He’s made the difference
He’s Shown Us How
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
More than ever, Nixon Now
Nixon Now
Nixon Now
Mister America, Nixon Now.

TEST:

Question #1:  What phrase am I least certain about in terms of accuracy?
Question #2:  According to the song, how has Richard Nixon “made the difference”?
Question #3:  How much of himself did Nixon give to humanity?
Question #4:  Does the fact that Nixon stuck in a campaign ad montage image of him smiling with Brezhnev complement or undermind Newt Gingrich’s attack on Obama meeting Hugo Chavez that American presidents never “smiled” when greeting Russian dictators?  (Likewise, how does Newt Gingrich’s line square with the line in the jingle: “Making Friends where Foes Used to Be“?)
Question #5:  What song did you immediately look up to on youtube to clear “Nixon Now” out of your head?

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