![]() ![]() Eight women in pale blue gowns appear, then eight men in light blue blazers, single file. And now the president's distinguished guests are laughing heartily, and the president himself is grinning happily, and, as he settles himself in his front row seat, the Ray Conniff Singers are beginning to file onstage. But this is the East Room of the White House, not some Hollywood B-movie set, and the film crew recording Richard Nixon's one-liner for posterity is from the Naval Photographic Center, not MGM or Columbia Pictures. ![]() "And if the music is square," the president is saying, "it's because I like it square." He leans into that line a bit, puts a little growl into it, looks - for just a split second - not so much like the freely elected leader of the Free World, three years into his first term and three weeks away from his breakthrough trip to China, but like some classic film noir tough guy: glowering, short-fused, vindictive. ![]()
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