Michael Beschloss

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Aug 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

"Nixon Drafts Resignation"--New York Daily News today 1974:

"The President Resigns"--CBS tonight 1974:

Nixon about to resign, Oval Office tonight 1974: #NARA

In White House Solarium, Nixon tells family he will quit, this week 1974:

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Michael Beschloss

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Aug 8

Just-renominated Nixon pretends to photograph Sammy Davis, Jr., onstage at “Young Voters for the President” rally, Miami, fifty years ago this month:

Nixon conspicuously enjoys a surprise hug from Sammy onstage at Young Voters for the President rally, Miami, fifty years ago this month:

After Sammy sings “Nixon Now, baby!” the President tries onstage to show the “youth” crowd that he can be hip too:

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If you have seven minutes available, please watch "A Night at the Garden" (2018), the Academy Award-nominated documentary by Marshall Curry on the chilling 1939 Nazi-organized rally in Madison Square Garden, attended by 22,000 people.
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Address at 1939 German-American Bund rally in Madison Square Garden, demanding a "White, Gentile-ruled United States":

One speaker at the Madison Square Garden German-American rally of 1939 called George Washington "America's first fascist":

Michael Beschloss

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Do not depend on pledge of an independent-party founder not to run a Presidential nominee (who might tip election to major candidate who would otherwise lose). History shows that building a successful third party will bring inexorable pressure for it to run someone for President.

There’s a grave reason some third-party Presidential candidates are called “spoilers.” Remember the impact of Ralph Nader in 2000 and Jill Stein in 2016. Presidential election of 2024 will have too much effect on democracy’s future for dilettantish gambling with history.

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Michael Beschloss

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Watch this early music video commercial "Nixon Now," sung by Mike Curb Congregation, 1972, in effort to win "youth" votes:

"Makin' friends where -- foes used to be!" they sing.

Some scenes in the 1972 "Nixon Now" musical commercial have their own sci-fi movie look:

Michael Beschloss

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Aug 5

Watch this outtake video of Richard Nixon rehearsing and joking before resignation speech—five minutes before airtime, this week 1974:

Nixon, who hates CBS News, says, "That's an NBC camera, I presume?" and is told that both cameras belong to CBS. He replies, "Standard joke."

Nixon says about his photographer, "I'm afraid he'll catch me pickin' my nose."

Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

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1947 comic book warned what might happen if communism conquered America, including a crowd attacking Capitol and Congress:

“We have done an exceptional job of making different classes and religions hate each other.”

“We will now burn the old books!”

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