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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (7559)	2/17/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

(Little Nixon story) ~ Martha was the only bright spot I can recall in the entire Nixon...melee. That is one death I was completely unsurprised by. I sort of doubt Mitchell and his buddies had the balls to kill her, but they had already tried mightily to shut her up and she knew it and was one pissed off woman. They got lucky and knew it. There was a degree of evil in those guys. I know it's MOST politicians, but not all. That bunch took the blinders off me, personally. I saw Nixon speak in 1969 I think it was, in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle, and we were not fond of him, but felt like we ought to see the guy holding our draft cards. (The Mormons heavily supported Nixon, and the Vietnam War, which was a mystery to us.) In the middle of some emphasis, the Presidential Seal just plooped down off the front of the podium to the floor, hung there for a second, and then rolled across the stage, left, on it's edge. Incredibly slowly. The symbol, on it's head, and then back up, and then another swoop down. Right in front of a row of "dignitaries", all sitting a step behind the podium; it lollied like a manhole cover, and none of them could decide what to do. Whether to jump up in the middle of Nixon's speech and grab the Presidential Seal and put it on their lap or just let it keep rolling and/or plop over. It was like a magic trick, and everyone was petrified. The audience of 95% Latter Day Saints was absolutely breathless. Dick had no idea. I would guess the stage they had built was about eighty feet wide, and I know from construction it must not have been level, with a slight leftward pitch, because the Seal just kept going, in one of the longest minutes I've ever seen. Another 1% of the audience were freaks, or "longhairs" as they were then known, and having endured nasty looking searches they were ready for a little levity here, and started laughing. I thought the Nam "conflict" was going to break out in the Hall. (No ~ Maybe the Cambodian "incursion".) But for us it was sort of fitting, that the emperor who ruled our lives and took them and others without our agreement and consent, should be embarrassed. And fitting too, that he couldn't see it. In Nixon's downtown SLC speech, he had just started doing the thing where he would throw both arms in the air in peace signs, ostensibly victory signs, and I later heard him comment, that he liked doing it because it really pissed the peaceniks off. Yah. It did. (But it's funny now.) But when you're the ones doing the unexplained killing and dying, none of it's funny. Just a little memory of the Sixties. :o) And yes, a lot of legislation good for this country, passed in his term.