Source: In These Times
by Caleb Brennan
“If the Richard Nixon Foundation transfers your call, a haunting song chimes through the receiver. It’s the disgraced president’s 1972 reelection song, ’More Than Ever,’ the upbeat, School of Rock-esque fanfare that was once pumped into millions of televisions 52 years ago. ‘More than ever we need Nixon now!’ sings a choir as sturdy horns, snares and piano chords crescendo. But transmitted through a landline, the tune curdles into something more like a funeral dirge. I was calling the guardians of Nixon’s endowment because I wanted to understand how a man once cast into the dustbin of history has come to experience a renaissance. In recent years, the foundation has become active online, framing Tricky Dick not as a craven megalomaniac but a champion of the people, and — in tandem with popular conservative pundits and leaders — has sought to rewrite the story of Watergate as a kind of putsch via bureaucratic cabal.” (12/17/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/all-the-presidents-apologists