The long nose and droopy cheeks are iconic for Nixon cartoons. All you’d need to show me is those characteristics in a drawing and I’d recognize it as Nixon

Nixon will forever be defined for me by his appearance in Futurama. He was mocked so thoroughly throughout my childhood that it's always jarring for me seeing him as a real person in old debates and TV appearances.

Ironically, this is a trait that he shares with his arch enemy, JFK.

When I was in HS the editorial cartoonist gave a lecture to my history class. I remember him saying Nixon was a goldmine for cartoonists.

Did anyone else notice that a good 90% of the artists in this video are 80+ now? Apparently picking up a pen and drawing makes you immortal in more ways than one.

As a Chinese, the cartoon of Nixon and Mao playing ping-pong first came to my mind.

6:50 its a Nix-nack

I knew a kid in highschool that drew all the time. But he only drew Nixon. He knew it wasn't normal and was open about it, he just liked drawing Nixon.

I had no idea about the ‘V for Victory’ thing, I feel like I always learn something new and weird on your channel.

Norman Rockwell is also well known for the Four Freedoms paintings that were commissioned by FDR during World War II. The "freedom of speech" one is still used today especially on Twitter to accompany an unpopular opinion.

"When I was 16, I e-mailed Aislin to ask him about this."
God, I feel like a loser, lol. 😂🤣😂

I think it's also interesting how the visual exaggerations of depictions of Nixon bled into vocal impressions. Like how some people when doing a Nixon impression shake their head and mumble to imitate his jowls.

"...plate that I bought years ago." When you pass way, your family is going to have a very interesting time going through your stuff.

I was born in the late sixties to people who really hated Richard Nixon.  I was told much later by them that they have expected my first words to be "Goddamn Nixon"

It can't be overstated how divisive he was at this time.

There's a popular surrealist horror webseries called The Monument Mythos on YouTube by a guy named Mister Manticore which imagines Nixon as a literal God.

Huge Hirschfeld fan here, JJ. Own a few pieces of his, and I actually met the artist himself back in the '80's. Thanks for showcasing his work.

"I am not a crook" is a famous phrase that President Richard Nixon said during a televised press conference on November 17, 1973, at Disney World in Florida.

Dunno if anyone else has mentioned it, but the 1987 opera Nixon in China features Richard, his wife Pat, Kissinger, and Mao as characters signing full blown arias, depicting his visit to the country. It's a very complex portrayal of Nixon, but the opera format works well in portraying him as a larger-than-life, egomaniacal power player.

You can find it on Youtube!

The Richard Nixon Foundation keeps getting recommended to me on YouTube, and now I got this video. YouTube really wants me to like Nixon I guess. 😂

In the Futurama episode that you mentioned, Leela has this line: "Fry, he opened up relations with China. He doesn't want to hear about your ding-dong." In the episode's audio commentary, one of the writers recalls how difficult it was to come up with an example of something positive that Nixon achieved while in office. The China thing is also mentioned in 'The Love of Richard Nixon', a Manic Street Preachers song released 10 years after Nixon's death - and one that's surprisingly sympathetic to the former president. Speaking as an outsider (I'm a Brit born in the early 1990s), history seems to remember Richard Nixon as one of the bad guys, but the Manics song tries to remind you that he was also a human being who presumably wanted to be a force for good in the world.

I find it funny how we went from one of the most caricaturized presidents ever in Nixon, to a guy who was described as impossible to do a good caricature of in Ford.