IVIV (8): Nixonizing U.S. Currency

[James Kyllo]

This:

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> all this is great!
>
> my lone contribution is that what sticks in my mind is
> the maniacal expression on Tricky's face.
>
> the refitting of the Golden Fang resonates

made me wonder if there is a connection between Nixon and dentistry...
  apparently:

[as a child] "...he brushed his teeth spontaneously several times a day."

{when a student] "...a lifelong football buff, Nixon practiced with
the team assiduously but spent most of his time on the bench. His
front teeth were knocked out and replaced by the rather prominent
bridgework that later afforded caricaturists a field day."

[news item from 1959] "New York -- The American Dental Association,
firmly embedded in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York and grimly resisting extraction, Monday won a struggle to
have Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev entertained elsewhere. The
dental association had stood firm for two days in refusing to be
yanked from the ballroom so that Khrushchev could have lunch there
Thursday during his New York visit. The tenacity of the dentists paid
off when city officials gave up and announced that the affair for
Khrushchev would be held at the Commodore Hotel. The scales began to
tip in favor of the dentists earlier when Vice President Richard Nixon
gave them his moral support while addressing their convention. "The
Russians might have got to the moon first but the dentists got the
ballroom first," said Nixon."

["remarks" December 1969] "BILL FLEMMING [ABC Sports]. Mr. President,
this has been, of course, the climax of the centennial year of college
football, and we, indeed, are very indebted to you, sir, for not only
taking your television set to your dentist so you could watch a
college game, but also being here at this final game.

THE PRESIDENT. Well, I wouldn't have missed it. I am only sorry that
both teams couldn't have won."

I don't think those have any great relevance, but the dentists vs the
Russians story was interesting

J

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