Kavanaugh says 'most people' now revere the Nixon pardon. Not so fast.

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9. Come to think of it, yeah, that would be interesting. Thanks for catching that.

I'm sure one of the commenters noticed that too, but I can't do a text search of the comments.

Getty Images says this:

https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/president-nixon-introduced-his-new-6-month-old-male-irish-news-photo/515102318

Richard Nixon Walking Dog
(Original Caption) Washington, DC: President Nixon introduced his new 6-month old male Irish Setter, King Timahoe, to the press. Nixon paraded his new pet in the Rose Garden while Senator Everett Dirksen (L) and Representative Gerald Ford (R), GOP Congressional leaders, who had been meeting with Nixon at the White House looked on. The Irish setter was a gift from the Nixon staff. Timahoe is a city in the county of Kildare, Ireland, where Nixon's forebears lived.



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Date created: January 28, 1969
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There are no leaves on the trees, so January 28, 1969, sounds just about right. Nixon had been in office for an entire 8 days.

Everett Dirksen died on September 7, 1969, so this must be among the last photographs of him.

Everett Dirksen

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Death


President Richard Nixon paying his last tributes to Senator Dirksen in 1969.

In August 1969, chest X-rays disclosed an asymptomatic peripherally located mass in the upper lobe of the right lung. Dirksen entered Walter Reed Army Hospital for surgery, which was undertaken on September 2. A right upper lobectomy removed what proved to be lung cancer (adenocarcinoma). Dirksen initially did well, but progressive complications developed into bronchopneumonia. He suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest and died on September 7, 1969, at age 73.

Dirksen lay in state at the United States Capitol rotunda, followed by burial at Glendale Memorial Gardens in Pekin.

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Update: I wrote Aaron Blake to let him know about the details of the photograph. I suppose he'll hear from lots of people.