Monday, September 15, 2025

now more than ever

 One of Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns used the phrase "Nixon Now" as the campaign slogan.

        In a later campaign, it said, "Now more than ever."


The Tricky Dick documentary on HBO Max has basically seven highlights of Nixon's public service career:

-  the Checkers speech

-  the kitchen debate

-  1960 campaign for president, running against John Kennedy [Kennedy won]

-  1962 campaign for governor of California against Pat Brown (father of Jerry Brown), [Brown won]

-  1968:  running for president and winning

-  1972:  won re-election

-  Watergate - and resigning from the presidency in 1974

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In 1962, after conceding the gubernatorial election in California to Pat Brown, Nixon appeared at a gathering of newspaper reporters and told them he was leaving public life; he said, "you've had a lot of fun" but "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore"....



"meeting the press" in California, 1962

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