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PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago. My Threads link is https://t.co/9r7VWCiF7W

Feb 8, 2022, 6 tweets

Newsweek of today 1970. The answer to Newsweek’s question was, sadly, no.

Alas it wasn’t.

The “Nixonettes” of 1968:

Nixon’s ad managers insisted that this 1972 poster would appeal to “American youth”:

This 1968 brochure was a bad idea for a number of reasons:

Young Voters for Nixon, 1968, hoped that this poster, featuring Agnew and Everett Dirksen, would close the deal for their hero:

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