Art
Play It Again, Dick, Nashville, Tennessee, 1974 (limited edition, framed photo)
- Item Number
- 121
- Estimated Value
- 2000 USD
- Sold
- 1000 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
The night was a new beginning for Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, as the home to country music moved from a small, downtown auditorium to big, new digs. Country star Roy Acuff persuaded the nation’s famously shy 37th president to play “Happy Birthday” to his wife Pat, who turned 62 that day.
“He looks like he is having a good time,” said photojournalist David Hume Kennerly, who took the shot. “It was out of character for him, and that’s why I like it.”
It was a lighthearted moment for Kennerly, recently returned from covering the Vietnam War. But it was a heavy time for Richard Nixon, who would soon become the only U.S. president ever to resign the office. On August 9, Nixon announced his exit in the face of possible impeachment for “dirty tricks” during his 1972 re-election campaign. The “Watergate scandal” that cost Nixon his job made stars of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and inspired a generation of investigative journalists.
Item Special Note
This framed photo is signed and numbered by Kennerly. It is a 16" by 20" archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta paper.
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