Nixon made an idiot of himself every time he tried to look like "a regular guy." He was anything but that. I recall the fanfare around his doing "Laugh-In:" should he? Or shouldn't he? And then he did it. The whole episode gave new meaning to the word "lame" in the social or "public persona" (not physical) sense...
Or was the meaning of the word "lame" in that sense actually born when Nixon said "Sock it to me" on "Laugh-In?" It may well have been. The "non-crook" who appointed Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court in 1970...
wasn't funny.
Whatever.
Dick Martin outlived a lot of people... The one I'm watching now is Patrick Swayze, because he's about my age...
Hope he makes it, despite the odds.
Margaret