Record basics
- Album name: The Altered Nixon Speech
- Artist name: Richard Nixon
- Year: 1973
- Number of discs: one
- Label: SRI
- Collection: Brenner / Gessner
- Who owned it: my father
- Buy it on Amazon: $19.79
My review
Level of familiarity before listening
I’ve heard a few Nixon speeches, but I’m not exactly sure which speech this will be.
What I expected
It’s a single that appears to have an altered version of a Nixon speech on side A, with the original version of the same speech on side B.
What it was actually like
I listened to side B (Original Material) first. It consisted of Richard Nixon denying any involvement in the Watergate break-in or the coverup of his cronies’ participation in it.
Side A (The Speech) was, as described, an altered version of Nixon’s actual statement, in which he was made to sound as if he knew about the Watergate break-in in advance, and authorized it, and is proud of breaking the law, &c, &c.
This must have been unbearably funny in 1973, but in 2022 we have deepfakes and so on, so I was not all that impressed.
Grade
3/5: interesting, but not for me
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