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Nixon's Weird-Ass White House Uniforms (1970) w/ Avery Trufelman

Published: April 5, 2022, 8:30 a.m.

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It\\u2019s April 4th. This day in 1970, Richard Nixon\\u2019s great White House uniform experiment is coming to an end.

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Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Avery Trufelman to talk about Nixon\\u2019s ill-fated design for new uniforms, what message he was trying to send \\u2014 and the very weird afterlife of these uniforms once they were packed up into boxes. It involves Alice Cooper.

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Be sure to check out Avery\\u2019s excellent Radiotopia series \\u201cArticles of Interest.\\u201d

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