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The President, You're now listening to the first of what we hope to be many bonus episodes.

And this came from an idea by one of our supporters and patrons, Justin Jackson.

He was recently listening to our episode on President Richard Nixon, part one.

And during one of the clips we played of one of President Nixon's speeches,

he came up with the idea that it would be quite helpful and informative if we could actually post the entire

speech onto our podcast so that our listeners could have them for their reference. And so that's

what we've decided to do. One of the clips that we played during the episode was of President

Richard Nixon's first inaugural address. And we have uploaded it here as a bonus episode

for everyone to listen. Now, Richard Nixon's first inaugural address isn't particularly famous. There

are many speeches, many inaugural addresses that are much more famous, like Lincoln's second

inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, John F. Kennedy in 1961.

But this speech is an interesting one because it represents the culmination of one of the

greatest comebacks in American political history. As you'll recall, Richard Nixon lost to President Kennedy in 1960,

and he ran for governor two years after that in 1962 and lost again. And it was at that point

where people were basically writing Nixon's political obituary. They were saying that his

career was over. And yet six years later, he somehow

masterminded a return to national prominence, won the 1968 Republican nomination, and that

fall won the presidency of the United States, considered today still one of the greatest

comebacks in American political history. And it's interesting because you have a person

like Richard Nixon who at one point was considered very controversial figure, somebody

who was not unifying at all, but taking office during an era that was very

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