Why Richard Nixon wanted to be a rapper in 1990
Strange aspirations.
Richard Nixon
When Elvis Presley contacted President Nixon out of his mind: “He was totally stoned”
“Paranoid delusions”.
Neil Hamburger’s absurd reading of Richard Nixon’s resignation speech
Turning history into absurd satire.
Hear a full confession from Tricky Dick on the novelty single ‘The Altered Nixon Speech,’ 1973
(via Syntonic Research Irv Teibel Archive) The immediate ancestor of the “Rappin’ Ronnie” record was The Altered Nixon Speech, a one-minute tape collage made from…
‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon trolls Humphrey with the most avant-garde political TV ad ever produced, 1968
In the presidential election this year, Donald Trump has been happy to paint himself as the “law and order” candidate with much talk of American…
Dangerous Finds: Rachel Dolezal, Bad Brains founder? Drunk Nixon; Why Honey Badger don’t give a shit
Rachel Dolezal Now Claiming to Be Founding Member of Bad Brains: The 37-year-old Dolezal claims to “have been there since day one” when describing her…
Witness ‘Simpsons’ actor Harry Shearer’s total transformation into Richard Nixon
Between playing bassist Derek Smalls in the immortal metal spoof This is Spinal Tap and voicing dozens of characters on The Simpsons, Harry Shearer has…
White House memo suggests Nixon ‘neutralize’ Johnny Cash, 1970
Richard Nixon’s presidency was marked by a legendarily thick air of paranoia. Dick feared the Democrats–sure, but he also feared Jews, intellectuals, black people, Mexicans…
‘IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER’: The speech Nixon would have given if lunar landing had failed
Prior to the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing, one of President Richard Nixon’s speechwriters, William Safire, who later became a long-standing political columnist,…
Capitalism, Communism and dishwashers: Nixon and Khrushchev argue in ‘The Kitchen Debate’
Nice body language, Dick. Photo credit: Elliot Erwitt. In 1959, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev met in Moscow in a highly publicized diplomatic event. The…