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Courtesy of Bale Creek Allen Gallery To understand whats so special about the exhibition "Promised Land," opening this week at Bale Creek Allen Gallery, it helps to go back to Baltimore and the Washington, D.C., area in the early Seventies, when Nixon is sweating through Watergate and John Waters is shaking up Charm City with Pink Flamingos. A guitarist meets a drummer, and they hit it off and play in a band together – original songs mostly, but they arent above playing cov...

>> in 1950 nixon ran against congresswoman helen gahagan douglas. it was a very rough campaign. filled with a certain amount of innuendo. he called helen douglas a pink lady. >> saying i was against the committee on un-american activities i was for communism. dirty tricks designed to avoid a discussion of issues. >> and anything was acceptable if it guaranteed success. >> in california congressman richard nixon wins easily.

>> i am not and never have been a member of the communist party. >> the question here today is whether or not mr. hiss has committed perjury before this committee. >> mr. nixon, i urge that your committee members abandon such verdict first and testimony later tactics. >> hiss was good-looking, suave, sophisticated, ivy league manner. he was a very effective witness. at the time everybody was backing hiss. the committee wanted to drop it completely. everybody was advising nixon to drop it. that i...

America and then wave bye-bye. >> this indicates the possibilities of increasing communication. and this increasing communication will teach us some things and it will teach you some things too. because after all, you dont know everything. >> translator: if i dont know everything, then i would say that you know absolutely nothing about communism. >> all that i can say from the way you talk and the way you dominate the conversation, you would have made a good lawyer yourself. >> ive seen khrushch...

Do that again. >> nixon was famous. he was the world famous vice president. kennedy was a rather unknown senator. >> he was thought to be untested politically, bit of a political lightweight. and richard nixon was the great debater. >> you hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? >> its like a brick wall. >> good evening. and now for the first opening statement by senator john f. kennedy. >> we discuss tonight domestic issues. but i would not want that to be any implication t...

And now finally, i know that you wonder, whether or not i am going to stay on the republican ticket or resign. let me say this. i dont believe that i ought to quit. because im not a quitter. and incidentally, pats not a quitter. but the decision, my friends, is not mine. and im going to ask you to help wire and write the republican national committee whether you think i should stay on or whether i should get off. and whatever their decision is, i will abide by it. ♪ >> all those in favor of ni...

>> youre going to have dick nixon. >> with faith in america and in her people i accept your nomination for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> its the centennial convention of the republican party. 100 years since the nomination of lincoln. its come now from abraham lincoln to richard nixon. ♪ everyone is voting for jack ♪ cause hes got what all the rest lack ♪ ♪ everyone wants to back jack ♪ jack is on the right track ♪ cause hes got high hopes

>> hes been downtown in his suite at the sheraton blackstone watching on television looking at us looking at him looking at us. >> could we have a word from mrs. nixon, please? >> i still feel its all a dream. when i was teaching school 20 years ago, i never knew that this event would happen tonight. >> mr. vice president, why do you want to be president of the united states? >> these lights are a little warm. i think this nation has a destiny. i think every individual has a destiny. >> richard ...

Know how to select the man for president that the times need and that the country needs. >> we want nixon! >> 100 hands go up with the peace sign which nixon himself has been using in the campaign. >> our great presidents have really articulated what people felt at the time. and it was because they were a representative of the tide of the times that they were president. >> mr. president -- mr. vice president -- you almost convinced me there for a moment. >> john f. kennedy becomes president-elec...

Now begins the exquisite agony of waiting to see how it all turned out. >> the very first returns are now beginning to pour in. >> and it is a very close race indeed as you see on the board. 415,000 votes for nixon with 2% of the nations precincts counted. and for nixon hes leading in states that would give him 173 electoral votes. it is just neck and neck. lets see how the ibm 7090 is looking at these returns this early in the evening. going over to the ibm data center and howard k. smith. >> t...