Paying a visit to Richard Nixon
Out for a run on a wooded trail last Saturday morning, Neil Young’s “Campaigner” came up — as if at random! — on the Spotify feed in my headphones.
You know the tune — or maybe you don’t. From 1977, on the “Decade” album: “Hospitals have made him cry /
But there’s always a freeway in his eye … where even Richard Nixon has got soul.”
Somehow the algorithm had intuited that, for my sins, I had an appointment at the Rich
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