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Courtesy of Bale Creek Allen Gallery To understand what's 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 aren't above playing covers for a gig at a D.C. Holiday Inn. (There's a fun story there, but maybe later.) This goes on fo...

>> 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 it would kill his career.

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 don't know everything. >> translator: if i don't 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. >> i've seen khrushchev in action many times. i think he felt that here at last he met a man of his own mettle and wor...

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? >> it's 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 to be given that this does not involve directly our struggle with mr. khrushchev for survival. there...