Above is a photo of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in conversation - it's from earlier years - late 1950s or early 1960s.
On You Tube, a video titled:
What Nixon Thought About Lyndon Johnson
uploader / channel: Richard Nixon Foundation
It's two minutes and forty-seven seconds - "2:47."
- Listen to it, and you will get to experience history in a way we couldn't do before the Internet - although we did have documentaries on TV, I guess. But we couldn't just "dial up" a moment the way we can now....
It lets us be intimate with history - and almost kind of seems to collapse time onto itself - we're here, in the year 2026, then we're back somewhere in the 1980s when Nixon was giving this interview, and at the same time we're back in 1958 when Nixon, as Vice President, sometimes presided in the Senate when there was a guest from a foreign country and the senators would greet them with polite applause....
Like folding up time and history as if it were a piece of paper and unfolding it in whatever spot we want to visit.
The first 55 seconds of this is the part we listened to yesterday. Then it goes on with some more observations.
"...polite hand-clapping..."
"...overwhelming..."
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