President Kennedy asserted his leadership in a new world order, undaunted by his vulnerable public exposure, unprotected in an open car, here with Wisconsin political officials Warren Knowles and Patrick Lucey.
Television exposure enabled popular actors like Lee Marvin, starring in “M Squad”, to become celebrities like political leaders seen on the TV news, intriguing to impressionable college kids seeking respectable adventure in the 1960s.
On August 8, 1974, broadcasting to an isolated north woods cottage, President Richard Nixon resigns, suitably on a blurry obsolete TV. The tranquility of the natural world outdoors contrasts with the tension of Nixon’s nervousness
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