True Story of How Pippin Became a Broadway Legend

The cover of Life magazine’s November 17, 1972 issue showed a close-up of Richard Nixon’s seemingly grimacing face, accompanied by the headline, “The Big Win: What will Nixon do with it?” The president had just handily earned a second term, scoring 520 electoral votes to George McGovern’s 17, but in this photo, at least, he didn’t look like the cat who got the cream. The inside story, an analysis of the victory, referred only fleetingly to “the Watergate bugging case and the related charges of political espionage,” by then prominent news stories that would bring some of Nixon’s closest associates… Read Full Article