The Altered Nixon Speech by Richard Nixon (Vinyl record single review)

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