President Richard M. Nixon plays piano on The Jack Paar Program - (1962 - NBC)
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 Published On May 31, 2021

President Nixon may not have been a crook, and he barely slopped through this virtuoso piano performance where then-former Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon proves Mommy's piano lessons paid off, and although his performance anxiety is certainly on display here, just a year after his last disastrous television performance (The Kenney-Nixon Debates). What might the future bring for this musical genius? Personally, I think he ripped his composition off from Charles Paul's "As The World Turns" theme song...or was it vice versa?

The political commentary is brilliant, unlike Nixon's 'hinkey-dinkey' song. Paar was genius. Insult your guest before the performance!

Boy, did Nixon have plans to run for something. And his Vietnamese Symphony didn't get such rave reviews.

FUN FACT: This channel creator's old Dentist Office in Northern NJ was in a part of Richard Nixon's former office during the last stage of his life. There was still a plastic sign near the upgraded thermostat that states "PLEASE DON'T TOUCH MR. NIXON'S AIR CONDITIONING". There is a large photograph with Nixon and Mario Petrillo...

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