Watergate

Why Richard Nixon Declared October Country Music Month

Arts, Culture & Media

In 1969, President Richard Milhous Nixon heard Merle Haggard’s hit “Okie From Muskogee,” and the first line—”We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee”—gives a hint to why Nixon liked it.

Nixon Watergate tapes

Nixon thought he’d be the only one to ever hear his secret recordings

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Nixon Watergate tapes

Nixon thought he’d be the only one to ever hear his secret recordings

Conflict