There's Something Else About Richard Nixon

Who Ever knew, according to Wikipedia’s, chronological list of inauguration portraits, that Richard Milhous Nixon was the last U. S. president not to show his teeth. He could have been a television crime scene detective, anchorman, or even the famous Cyrano de Bergerac before Steve Martin in Roxanne. And think about the high-double-hand-double-V- salute! President Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower may have once offered the salute. Similarly, half-Vulcan and half-human, Mr. Spock made a single-hand-double-V-salute, and Winston Churchill made the single-hand- single-V-salute. As well as Steve McQueen, a few protesters and several rock stars. Even before that, a low relief, discovered by archeologists in Magnesia ad Meandrum, Greece dating back almost three-thousand years, displays a person offering a single-hand -single-V-salute. But never in history has anyone been more recorded offering a high-double-hand- double-V-salute. If President Barack Hussein Obama gave a high-double -hand- double-V-salute, we would call him a dictator. And although Mr. Obama was the first president to offer a single- hand-salute with a cup of coffee, all the firsts and first lasts, lead me to believe that an extraordinary man became the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America. But there’s still something else about Richard Nixon. Maybe he just looks too happy.