Nixon and the Fair

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This file appears in: When Nixon Came to the Fair

An interview with Dr. J. William T. Youngs.

Video courtesy of Lee Nilsson

This file appears in: When Nixon Came to the Fair

By Cory Carpenter
In May of 1974, an embattled President Richard Nixon visited Spokane to dedicate the 1974 World's Fair against a backdrop of lies, cover-ups, and political drama. By this time, the president was in his second year of the public scandal that…