“I for one don't even believe that he's president.”

— Phil Ochs

Speech about Richard Nixon before playing "Ten Cents A Coup" on the Greatest Hits album (February 1970)
Context: I for one don't even believe that he's president. In order to have a president you need to have an election, in order to have an election you have to have a choice, and if you remember back to the primaries there were people running against the war, Kennedy and McCarthy. They often got 85 to 90% of the votes, but when it came time for the parties, that was totally ignored, so in point of fact, there really was no election. For a man who's always wanted to be president, and now that he's president, he's not even president.

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