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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.

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