Richard Nixon explained in 26 portraits
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Nixon will forever be defined for me by his appearance in Futurama. He was mocked so thoroughly throughout my childhood that it's always jarring for me seeing him as a real person in old debates and TV appearances.
Ironically, this is a trait that he shares with his arch enemy, JFK.
Aroooooo!
“At any rate, I certainly wouldn’t harm the child.” 😅
HEADLESS BODY OF AGNEW
hehe, JARring
JFK wasnt actually his arch enemy. surprisingly enough, JFK and Nixon were quite close friends during his presidency
Nixon was not "unshaven" during the famous Kennedy-Nixon Debate of 1960. He just didn't use any makeup like Kennedy did, and he didn't totally grasp the "power of the visual image" that black-and-white TV introduced in the 1960 campaign. (Before 1960, television was not much of a political factor.) Polls taken after this famous debate showed that persons who listened only on radio thought that Nixon "won" the debate, while those who watched on TV thought Kennedy had won.
Kennedy and his younger campaign team grasped the power of television early on as well as the necessity of looking good on TV. So Kennedy took great care in picking out his clothes, his haircut, being tan, and wearing makeup to make the best possible appearance. Every politician since then has worn makeup to appear on TV.
My earliest political/historical memory is that debate (I was almost five), and Nixon looked hostile and scary. Black and white TV tended to exaggerate.
Did anyone else notice that a good 90% of the artists in this video are 80+ now? Apparently picking up a pen and drawing makes you immortal in more ways than one.
Also the sculptor who lived to 104
SO TRUE this is insane
When I was in HS the editorial cartoonist gave a lecture to my history class. I remember him saying Nixon was a goldmine for cartoonists.
The cartoonist was Paul Szep if the Boston Globe.
The long nose and droopy cheeks are iconic for Nixon cartoons. All you’d need to show me is those characteristics in a drawing and I’d recognize it as Nixon
I would easily forget about Nixon (being a Canadian in his early 20s) if it weren't for Futurama.
AAAARRRROOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I had no idea about the ‘V for Victory’ thing, I feel like I always learn something new and weird on your channel.
This is why Mario does it!
@@JJMcCulloughSo Mario… isn’t a hippie? :(
You clearly haven't seen or paid attention to numerous photos of Winston Churchill during World War 2.
It was created by Prime Minister Winston Churchill by adopting the opening Morse Code "V" ...- used by the BBC at the beginning of broadcasts to Nazi-occupied Europe. In English and some other languages it stood for "Victory", while in Dutch it is the first letter for that language's words for "peace" and "liberty". There was even a cocktail created about it. Here is a RUclips video on it: ruclips.net/video/3BmyaP9Vj1U/видео.html
It still does mean victory in some countries, like Japan.
As a Chinese, the cartoon of Nixon and Mao playing ping-pong first came to my mind.
Isn’t that from Forrest Gump
Ping-pong diplomacy
@@The_king567 Cartoon of Nixon and Mao playing ping pong was drawn in 1971, while Forest Gump Movie was released in 1994.
@@xraymind so
6:50 its a Nix-nack
Knick Naxon
That's what I was thinking too!
"When I was 16, I e-mailed Aislin to ask him about this."
God, I feel like a loser, lol. 😂🤣😂
"...plate that I bought years ago." When you pass way, your family is going to have a very interesting time going through your stuff.
Alroight buds,who gets the Nixon plate?
In the Futurama episode that you mentioned, Leela has this line: "Fry, he opened up relations with China. He doesn't want to hear about your ding-dong." In the episode's audio commentary, one of the writers recalls how difficult it was to come up with an example of something positive that Nixon achieved while in office. The China thing is also mentioned in 'The Love of Richard Nixon', a Manic Street Preachers song released 10 years after Nixon's death - and one that's surprisingly sympathetic to the former president. Speaking as an outsider (I'm a Brit born in the early 1990s), history seems to remember Richard Nixon as one of the bad guys, but the Manics song tries to remind you that he was also a human being who presumably wanted to be a force for good in the world.
Nixon' administration supported policies on the environment and on affirmative action that would be impossible today from a Republican. Nixon himself didn't always like those policies, but he knew they were necessary. He was a real contradiction. Noam Chomsky has called Nixon the last liberal president.
I think understanding Nixon as a person requires a degree of empathy that his most dogmatic detractors lack. When you read about his life, the way he viewed himself, and the way he felt he was treated - perpetually looked down upon and reviled even by those who were supposed to be closest to him (even Eisenhower would publicly mock him on occasion) - I think you almost inevitably develop some degree of compassion for him, even if it's only begrudgingly.
Nixon did a lot of positive things while President. He signed the SSI program into law in 1972, the Tax Reform Act of 1969 (which created the Alternative Minimum Tax), The Social Security Amendments of 1972 (extended Medicare coverage to people with chronic renal disease (CRD) who require dialysis or kidney transplantation), his policies helped the Native Americans, he banned supersonic flights over the USA in 1973, he signs the Clean Air Act of 1970, Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act (1974), the Water Resources Development Act of 1974, and more!
The "Mr. T Experience" song "Even Hitler had a Girlfriend" goes "Nixon had his puppy, Charles Manson had his clan, why can't I get a girlfriend?" Noting that even monsters were humans someone thought was worthy of love. (Referencing the Checkers speech)
The Cancer Initiative, ending conscription, detente with the Soviet Union which lead to more diplomatic relations, various environmental legislation without going overboard like modern administrations. Nixon had various accomplishments, and it's why he was reelected in a landslide in 1972. Futurama is funny, but its creator (Matt Groening) is hardly known for his well reasoned political opinions.
Great video! Love this format and I wish to see more! I feel like Queen Elizabeth would be an interesting one in this format
hey, anyone know what's the name of the song that plays when J.J. speaks about Nixon and the hungarians at about the 19:29 mark?
Oh man I know some countries would have very different depictions of her than other, that'd be a lot of fun lol
I was born in the late sixties to people who really hated Richard Nixon. I was told much later by them that they have expected my first words to be "Goddamn Nixon"
It can't be overstated how divisive he was at this time.
Seems like we've got a pretty familiar phenomenon in Trump, MAGA and TDS
I really liked this video. It reminded me of the Bill Clintom cartoon video, another one of my favorites. It's really interesting to see people's feelings towards prominent figures through contemporary artistic depictions. It's love to see more of these, either about other presidents or perhaps Canadian figures.
I liked making both of those videos a lot. But they're not very popular.
@@JJMcCullough that really is unfortunate because these two videos really stand out to me as special, so informative and through the lens of art, focused on an era before my time, it's all immensely interesting
"I am not a crook" is a famous phrase that President Richard Nixon said during a televised press conference on November 17, 1973, at Disney World in Florida.
The point about Nixon's transition from a contemporary to a historical figure is so interesting because of how many of the policies he started like the war on drugs, environmental legislation, relations with China are probably more relevant than ever.
The Richard Nixon Foundation keeps getting recommended to me on RUclips, and now I got this video. RUclips really wants me to like Nixon I guess. 😂
Same
Think all these caricatures would skew you the opposite direction.
The Nixon foundation videos are actually great. It's easy to forget that Noxon was a god-tier politician, and had one of the biggest landslide victories is presidential history.
I think it's also interesting how the visual exaggerations of depictions of Nixon bled into vocal impressions. Like how some people when doing a Nixon impression shake their head and mumble to imitate his jowls.
Man I love Ralph Steadman so much. He draws regular people and scenes like horrifying monsters but at the end of the day they're just spiritual caricatures. His art is like looking at funhouse mirrors but on a dose of mescaline
there is a story about Steadman drawing caricatures of American's at the Kentucky Derby in one of Hunter S Thompson's essay, the American's are furious at his depictions of them and Thompson has to intervene repeatedly to stop fists being thrown. Steadman is confused at the US reaction to his work as that kind of caricature is viewed as being more amusing than insulting in Britain.
I’m always impressed more by Nixon’s popularity than by the animosity to him. I feel like for my entire life the president has been widely reviled by his opponents. The depiction of W’s motorcade in Death of a President springs to mind. But Nixon was legitimately popular, and won a huge share of the vote in ‘72.
He wasn't popular like that afterwards though.
He accomplished a lot during his presidency. Detente, slowing the proliferation of nuclear arms, opening trade with China, and establishing the EPA. I would easily vote for him over any of today’s Republican primary candidates
A bit of popularity, a bit of painting McGovern as too far to the left for the public's tastes. The Nixon campaign successfully associated him with the hippie movement, which if you can believe it was even more unpopular in the 70s than it is today. Though how disliked Nixon was is up for debate as there are academic arguments that Nixon may have actually won the popular vote vs Kennedy.
@@LordBitememan Hippies are still reviled today. We don't call them hippies anymore, though, we call them woke. They're the same people ideologically, just from an entirely different generation. The absolute disdain modern Conservatives and Conservative-leaning individuals is no less powerful than the disdain people had for the hippies in 1972.
@@Skeloperch I wouldn't agree that hippies and the woke are the same thing. Hippies weren't big champions of the same sorts of double-standards wokism pushes. Woke is more akin to the umpteen million Marxist groups around that time that all styled themselves as "People's Revolutionary (fill in the blank)." Both are obnoxious groups, but hippieism is hapless, woke is downright pernicious.
Huge Hirschfeld fan here, JJ. Own a few pieces of his, and I actually met the artist himself back in the '80's. Thanks for showcasing his work.
Nixon’s scandal and subsequent resignation is an inflection point in American culture we’re still living in the shadow of.
Like he said, Presidents became just "politicians" after that and more a polarizing figure.
There's a popular surrealist horror webseries called The Monument Mythos on RUclips by a guy named Mister Manticore which imagines Nixon as a literal God.
You always have original ideas for content and you do such a professional job I could imagine you having your own tv show. I appreciate how you don't adhere to trends and keep giving us interesting videos. Thanks for your work.
I just wish they got more views
You have a real gift for curating enormous sets of artifacts (such as the thousands of depictions of Nixon that exist) down to really distinct collections that do a great job of representing the topic as a whole. It's not as easy as it may seem to some people, and I'm constantly impressed by it.
It must be weird to be Canadian, proudly non-yank but literally as close as you could possible get in terms of culture. Not the same in Europe, France, Spain, Germany and England all next to each other have completely different cultures and languages yet are the size of US states.Canada the second largest country and the US the fourth largest, both next to each other both absolutely massive and yet pretty much ubiquitous if you consider the size of those two lands.
Dunno if anyone else has mentioned it, but the 1987 opera Nixon in China features Richard, his wife Pat, Kissinger, and Mao as characters signing full blown arias, depicting his visit to the country. It's a very complex portrayal of Nixon, but the opera format works well in portraying him as a larger-than-life, egomaniacal power player.
You can find it on RUclips!
Norman Rockwell is also well known for the Four Freedoms paintings that were commissioned by FDR during World War II. The "freedom of speech" one is still used today especially on Twitter to accompany an unpopular opinion.
The silent majority do not know anything about Richard Nixon other than Watergate. I, on the loud opposition of vocality, think he is the most underrated president of the 20th century.
My two favourite presidents are JFK and Nixon both for what they represent rather than what they accomplished. They both represent the dramatic highs and lows that one experiences when seeking power. They're the most authentically "human" presidents by far.
My favourite Simpsons joke ever is when Homer watches an old Duff beer commercial with Nixon not endorsing Duff as well as Kennedy with Homer saying "the man never had a Duff in his life" with genuine disgust- I think the fascination of Nixon came from the fact he was such a dork compared to the more macho Kennedy and LBJ that him doing normal everyday activities are just inherently amusing- like the picture of him bowling
That scene is so well acted. I love how uncertain Nixon is when he endorses “that uh, particular brand of beer.”
The Simpsons had a field day with Nixon. The ones I remember the most:
-Homer as kid watching the Kennedy/Nixon debate.
-Nixon on the "jury of the damned" of Satan Flanders claiming he's not dead yet. Which Flanders reminded him how many time he helped him in the past
-The pig mascot of the rival University that Homer helped kidnapped. Homer's nerdy friends were kicked out because the pig had powerful friends (Nixon appeared)
@@lajya01For me it's when Bart stuck a nose and eyes on his butt and scared a bunch of girls during the school's Presidents' Day Pageant
@@lajya01 IKR, he was definitely a product of the baby boomer nostalgia that was a source of a lot of the jokes and episodes in the Simpsons (and Futurama) during the 90s- you can tell the writers cane of age during the Nixon administration
hey, anyone know what's the name of the song that plays when J.J. speaks about Nixon and the hungarians at about the 19:29 mark?
You briefly touched on Nixon in film when talking about Dick. But my favorite cinematic depiction of Nixon is Secret Honor (1984) played by Phillip Baker Hall.
Great concept for a video, JJ! I'd love to see more of these. Art tells us so much.
You can make any topic sound interesting to me. Love you JJ
Asides from Watergate the more I learn about Nixon the more I find myself liking him, especially in the 1960 foreign policy debate against JFK and his policy of detente opening up China to the west. Ik it's controversial to say, and maybe it's motivated by my contrarionism but I would go so far as to say that he's one of my favourite Presidents.
The scandal has rewritten history to some extent. Sure he had his haters but he eras quite popular during his land slide reelection. This was conveniently forgotten lol
Jfk had terrible ideas he shouldn’t have ever been president
The problem with Nixon revisionism is that people view his policy achievements in isolation. His style of government, however, was based on lying and deception and criminality. And there wasn’t one without the other.
fwiw I think you are generally not that contrarian with your Nixon take(Why im taking time to respond).I constantly see people pidgeon holing Nixon as "he opened trade with china" or "The EPA was set up under him" and just forgetting the absolute heinous shit he believed and did.
>besides watergate
What about the tapes of him talking about black people and drug policy?
I also dont know how we can just handwave "watergate".A scandal that massively speaks volumes to Nixon's political instincts and unhinged ideas on executive authority.
@@JJMcCullough I can see why people who view proceduralism as an inherent good in of itself might say that but if it was a means to a positive end then I'm okay with it and looking further back in history most people tend to agree, look at the blatant authoritarianism of Lincoln, nearly universally regarded as a top 3 president but he was not a by the books establishment loving procedure and tradition worshiping guy. I would point to Huey Long as well but I suspect you may there disagree but I know Mr Beat would take my side in defending his authoritarianism. It's all a means to an end, and Nixon by and large used his power to pursue good things.
Nixon had enough faces to feed a family of cartoonists
A couple of hours after watching this, I realized that even before Nixon, if you were to ask a cartoonist to draw a picture of a sneaky, ruthless sort of person, they'd probably give the character the same sort of furtive eyebrows and penetrating eyes that Nixon had. The way Nixon's public persona happened to align with his looks was a boon for cartoonists.
I really like these series about a political figure through cartoons! They’re a great way to reflect on past figures. It also helps understand the public perception at the time during their relevance
This and your similar video on Bill Clinton are some of my all time favourites on this channel. It's such an engaging way to learn about important figures, especially someone like Nixon, how I didn't really know all that much about. If you want to continue with this kind of video I'd be personally interested in seeing how Ronald Reagan has been portrayed.
Roy Peterson! I'm so glad you incorporated him in this vid. Really enjoyed this vid!
Fascinating idea for a video, very thought provoking.
And naturally, award winning research and narration are key elements of the documentary.
This is a super fascinating topic JJ. I really like illustrating presidents but have never been very good at caricature, it’s interesting to see what different artists choose to portray and how that intern influences how we think of them. I think it’s easier to caricature someone we feel strongly about one way or another. I don’t think I could draw sleepy joe from memory but I could probably draw a recognizable trump or nix pretty quickly.
69 year old here. Nostalgia city to the max! I suppose this balances out the youtube shorts that portray him as a prescient political prognosticator. He had learned a great deal about international power politics in his time. But I have a theory about his dark side. His mother, whom he spoke of emotionally in his departure speech, was a devout Quaker woman. I think she gave him a hyper version of what it means to be a good person. And what he experienced in real life is that good guys do not make out well when they go up against those who have no scruples. So I think that while he was trained in how to be a good person, he embraced a way of being unscrupulous so that he could progress in life, but it was a more extreme version of unscrupulousness
than what you find in normally unscrupulous people. Unscrupulous people usually have a sense of how far they can go. Nixon had something that went beyond that.
This video is so cool! Something i would never think i’d enjoy
Love your vids jj
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library is actually a super fascinating museum. Highly recommend visiting if you're in the area
He always looked like a cross between Walter Matthau and Bob Hope
Matthau's face and Hope's nose. I see it too
Such a great analysis, excellent vid. ❤
i always end up being interested and learning interesting stuff from your videos, regardless of how outside of my field they are
This is already one of my favourite video of yours. I love the concept of telling Nixon's and US history around him through portraits
Epic cultural review, this was well researched! Citations were well incorporated. I like that you described all the artists a bit, and their unique approaches to the portraits. It also proved general global fascination with Nixon, since the artists are cultural communicators for their communities. Of course JJ is well equipped for an excellent art history piece!
It's worth keeping in mind that despite his modern reputation, Nixon was one of the most popular presidents of all time.
He won 49 states in 1972.
and he left office with like 10% approval
No, it was how unpopular George McGovern was.
also, interesting video. like all the videos that you create. good job on the investigating and nice pictures.
on the same note, I appreciate your vast vocabulary in all of your videos. I studied some English as a foreign language and even to a foreigner to the English language, it is apparent that you employ quite a number of synonyms , antonyms and other lexical items that enrich your speech and makes it more ... idk, vivid to the listener, so thanks very much, dude!
as always or almost always, very informative, clear and, at times, fun video! keep up the good work!
Oh thank you! That’s very kind. I sometimes feel like I don’t have a big enough vocabulary
@@JJMcCullough We're always wanting for more, imo. To me, the sheer breath of the vocab you use is enough of a reason to watch the videos. Big kudos to you , man!
English is also a foreign language to me and I learned today from J.J the word jowl, never heard of it before
I know these types of videos aren't as popular as others on the channel but I encourage you to keep making these. It's easy to tell you've cultivated this interest in 20th century cartoons and political memory for decades and you've built an extensive archive to share with us - even documenting individual cartoonists' quotes and biographical info. A passion oozes out of these videos that I think is rare to see online these days. The care you take to place these events in their proper context grounds this channel with a weight that makes most other explainer-type channels feel like Wikipedia summaries. Keep making these gems, we're along for the ride.
Thank you so much for these incredibly kind words. They mean a lot to me.
Great content!
this was super interesting always cool to learn something new with JJ
I love art so much. You can learn so much about the general sentiment of people around that time from art that you just can't from photos or essays.
Nixon was such material when you need to add some evil to something. I remember in Back to the Future in the alternate "evil" 1985, when Doc Brown showed the newspaper announcing his commitment, another column said "Nixon to seek Fifth term" and vowing to end Vietnam war by 1985.
this was such an amazing vid, i'd love to see you cover more people in this style.
Too bad the video is such a flop
@@JJMcCullough I loved this video, but I based on the title and thumbnail I didn't think I'd care about the topic. I only watched it because I didn't have anything else in my box to watch while eating lunch. But I was definitely impressed and regret my initial hesitation. It's probably not the most attention-grabbing topic, so I get why the algorithm didn't reward it as much, but I also think some changes to the title and thumbnail could go a long way in expanding its reach. I'm a huge fan of your videos and this was no different. Keep up the amazing work
@@krytolandros1775 changes like what?
@@JJMcCullough I'm just a veiwer, not a creator, so I acknowledge I'm not the expert on this. But I think I would have been more grabbed with a thumbnail that is more recognizable as Nixon but still grabs attention, like the one you liked the most with the gnarled foot on the beach, or the one that looked like Soviet propaganda, neither of which I had ever seen before. And maybe a title like "Nixon's controversial legacy in 26 portraits" since really you use the portraits to tell a story about his relationship with the public and media rather than simply describe 26 portraits.
great work JJ!
:-)
This actually reminds me of a social studies teacher I had, back in like grade school. She was a big fan of political cartoons, and would often cut them out of the news paper and use them as a starting point for discussion.
The way politicians were depicted in relation to public opinion was often something we'd discuss, like, how, basically one bad press outing could permanently shape how you were depicted was honestly kind of fascinating.
As for how appropriate this was, I'm not so sure. I enjoyed it, but I also kind of feel like it was a little bit too easy to rely on so heavily as curriculum in the class room.
I was young to where I never lived in the same time as him, but his lasting impact certainly necessitates a dissection of the media's perception of him, thanks!
You have a fantastic imagination regarding subject matter for your videos. Good stuff. 👍👌😉
Banger video 🤘
This one is a banger. Should have more views
I truly enjoy your reports JJ
Frost/Nixon is a really good movie covering the iconic Nixon impeachment interviews. Not exactly a "fun" movie but a really good one none the less.
It has some of the most iconic Nixon quotes recreated in color.
In the TV show, Murphy Brown, she is getting rid of contacts in her Rolodex and comes across Nixon. Murphy starts to pull out the card but stops and leaves it, remarking "You never know about him."
This video inspired me as a conservative democrat to learn more about about Nixon and after hours down the rabbit hole listening to Nixon speeches and interviews it gave me an incredible respect for his intellect and made me sad to think how far politics have come from that era where it seems politicians were more thoughtful and intellectual compared to the current state of politicians being glorified performers…anyway…..Please please please respond to the latest Bill Maher episode editorial about how a country (Canada) can go too far left and the associated consequences. As a former Canadian conservative talking head who serves as my only insight into Canadian politics I would love your take.
Thanks so much!! I liked that Bill Mahr video a lot.
@@JJMcCullough thanks JJ! You have been very influential for me in how I process and interpret information. You have an incredibly unique voice that the world needs more of. Never stop!
Mailing address for some very unique and niche Chicago memorabilia?
Oh and Tshirt size 😀
Jeffrey Toobin's pithy summary of later nostalgia for Nixon is on point. You've got to love the New Yorker.
I would love to see you do more videos about the U.S. presidency. Heck, I'd love a whole video on the cultural impact & legacies of every president, even some of the more distant ones. For example, I was thinking about it today, and I feel like the only full-2-term president in all American history that's largely unknown to the average American is Grover Cleveland. Shockingly, pretty much every other 2-termer is still remembered today.
Thanks!
Political cartoons are the best when you have to use no words, and that one of nixon with the long nose folded out page is still amazing to this day, had a real laugh at that one
Nice video
I always really liked that Guston portrait of Nixon. Guston had this way of taking zany and cartoonish anatomical tropes, the sort of things you'd later see in silly 90's animated shows or more contemporaneously in underground comics, and making them viscerally sympathetic. He made unreal figures look as if they were in all too real pain - physically and emotionally.
This was a really good video btw J.J. :D I always enjoy your analysis of art. Even if on those rare occasions I find myself not necessarily agreeing a particular take, you've almost always provided me with a perspective I'd never considered before.
The life and career of Richard Nixon is truly a Shakespearean tragedy. He ruthlessly climbed his way to the top only to be brought down by his hubris and paranoia. Even in death he wouldn't know peace
Hey JJ- I would watch this exact type of video about each President! Just throwing that out there!!!
I don’t think so… this video isn’t very popular
@@JJMcCullough Should've timed it for August to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his resignation.
Fun fact, I grew up in Yorba Linda and when I was in middle school we all had to take a field trip to the Nixon library and take a comprehensive world geography test that they referred to as the “Nixon” test. I aced it of course😮💨
Funny, if I'd seen the Mauldin sketch without any context I'd have thought it was Sam Eagle!
30 minute JJ video on a Sunday. Could life get any better?
20:26 I remember when Bart Simpson referenced this once. It further adds to KC Reviews's video essay about how _The Simpsons_ references still work for viewers who don't get the reference, while those on _Family Guy_ very much rely on getting the reference.
Grossman's caricature of Nixon makes him look like a character from the world of Wallace & Grommit.
what an awesome concept for a video! pity that the algorithm doesn't seem to favor it. between you and me, these esoteric, low performing videos are some of my favorites: the video from last year on old ballots comes to mind.
I personally really like your caricature of Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón from on of your flag videos. I've learned a lot about him from Texas history classes and your depiction of him is really good.
Excellent content JJ. You should do more on the cultural significance of political cartoons by highlighting individual politicians. 👍
Along the lines of rehabilitating Nixons image in modern times, I've seen the Nixon Foundation on RUclips has been posting clips of speeches and interviews focusing more on his views and principles that have been pretty positively recieved. (at least when consulting the comment sections of those videos)
It will be very interesting to see how the legacies of these more recent past presidents will change to impact modern political discourse.
it’s so interesting seeing how far caricatures can go in simplification.. even with the bare minimum you can still guess who it’s a caricature of, and i think that’s super cool
Wow, this unlocked a memory for me. I was born in '63. My parents really hated Nixon. Some time in the 70's they acquired a very large candle that depicted Nixon. Yes, candle - it was the 70's, what can I say? Anyway, it had three nearly life-sized faces of Nixon, each facing a different direction, so you had to turn the candle around to see them. It was pretty realistically sculped, and painted in a light beige shaded with brown that made the details pop. Each face had hands in the positions that denote "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." My parents never burned that giant candle. Instead it sat on their coffee table for years, where all our guests could see it.
I'm strangely fascinated by Nixon and this episode about his depictions in popular culture is simply brilliant. I'd like to point out to two works of art inspired by Nixon's presidency. The first one is novel "Our gang" by Philip Roth which I found so funny when I was reading it in the '90ties that I was literally rolling on the floor laughing. Another one is Manic Street Preachers song "The ove of Richard Nixon" - surprisingly nuanced for a work of very left leaning band
Oh I love Roth I gotta read that
the stamp debacle is just so funny in pure irony
When meeting randos (at a cocktail party, e.g.), I always try to work 'I am not a crook.' into conversation to see how people respond. 10/10 would recommend.
Political cartoonists are so self important it’s almost unbelievable.
Rarely are they more complex than the “I have depicted you as the soyjack and me as the chad!” Then they have a gull to write an autobiography as they are some great thinker for drawing someone they don’t like with a big nose.
You should do this for every President that political cartoon and portrait of one way or another was made
JJ day, the best day of the week
I grew up near Yorba Linda an remember going to Nixon's museum as a kid. It really does a great job of humanizing him and telling his story as a disgruntled impoverished kid who came from nothing to one of the most powerful men of his time and how he was mocked and hated through his career by what he considered "elites" which made him deeply paranoid and introverted.
I am 68, and Nixon was the most polarizing President till Trump in my personal memory.
I think you are right but Reagan was also quite polarizing.
Nixon wasn’t that bad
By the time he resigned he wasn’t so polarizing. Nearly everyone was against him. Contrast that today when someone under the cloud of so much scandal and misdeeds can become the nominee of a major political party. Nixon at least had the decency to be ashamed of being caught with his hand in the cookie jar while Trump just lies about it all and blames everyone else.
Where you in a comma during the Obama era?
@@The_king567 Yeah, he was. Putting wage and price controls in place was one of his failings, as well as going off the gold standard with nothing to replace it. The War on Drugs and the War on Cancer were notable bits of mischief.
Nixon wasn’t nearly as bad as he’s been portrayed. He was responsible for the EPA,NEA, Endangered Species Act, Title Nine,Title X.
Exactly there hasn’t been a better president since him
@@The_king567 😂
So he did a few good things. Are you just going to ignore all the shit?
@@sharimeline3077 good out ways the bad
@@sharimeline3077 it’s true get over it
Seeing historical cartoons is always very interesting
How many other presidents could be charactured by forhead alone: Trump (hair) Obama (only black president) Lincoln (with the hat) and George Washington (with the wig).
0:04 Fun fact: Milhouse from _The Simpsons_ is actually named after this guy, the reason Matt gave being that it was the most unfortunate name he could think of for a child to have.
Even better still, Milhouse's middle name is of a certain *other* generally hated politician who's been equally unflatteringly caricatured in American media.
About a decade ago, I had an assignment in a high school class to interview two family members on their opinions on four different presidents and their moral failings. I forget who the other two were, but I believe Andrew Johnson and Nixon were two of them. And when I interviewed my grandmother, who was not a very political person, I was shocked by how much open disdain she had for Nixon. She essentially implied that his scandal killed an era of innocent faith in the American political system, at least for her
HELL YEAH JJ!!