President Richard M. Nixon plays piano on The Jack Paar Program - (1962 - NBC)

[@musicom67]

Jose Melis was the musical director / conductor and had to suffer through the arrangement writing process...

[@bretbenzion1939]

Rude!

[@alexa81]

Nixon always knows when he's being recorded

[@musicom67]

LOL!

[@michaelsergejhelgesson1637]

So it was Pat who started it!😂

[@koreboredom4302]

I've waited actual years to hear how the tune ends and then here you came along.

[@williamgregory1848]

Richard Nixon was our most musically talented president. Although he never learned to read music, he could play piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, and the accordion.

[@oldblackstock2499]

That's interesting. I knew he played piano but not those other instruments. He did very well here.

[@musicom67]

DICK NIXON was also a VIRTUOSO on the DICTAPHONE

[@suzannemcmaken4648]

😮

[@rickolsonmusic]

Nixon loved Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) and once met him at the airport the story goes, and was honored to carry Satchmo’s bag, and in that bag was a bag of weed!

[@syncsummit]

And then he smoked it.

[@brianduffytube]

thank you so much for tracking down and publishing the complete recording

[@dadodydo]

R.I.P. President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat.

[@suzannemcmaken4648]

Loved this! ❤

[@S2Sturges]

Strings are too hot, maybe they figured if he cocked it up, they could bury in violins... it's a nice little tune and ge certainly didn't embarrass himself playing it. Left hand was pretty good, in fact..

[@lauracollins5298]

@lauracollins5298 0 seconds ago Nixon’s version of “ Makin’ Whoopee”!?

[@ImZiraTheFirst]

Love the fact that he was tape recorded! HYSTERICAL!

[@franksantore2810]

Isn't it a shame that RN could not show his humanity like this at all times? If he had, he could have Bern the greatest ever.

[@JeffSkilling69]

Bro, are you serious? Read anything about him and you'll see how wrong you are.

[@bk2524]

It isnt here but I love how in this interview Nixon says "I would never speak disrespectfully of the man or the office" when referring to President John Kennedy. How far we have comd

[@williet.3058]

What if that man is a scum and a criminal?

[@Ranger1216]

A Steinway! Nice finger technique…..sweet song

[@kevinbuckel3833]

Paar, let’s see what you got… Oh, okay, I thought so.

[@lauracollins5298]

Nixon’s version of “ Makin’ Whoopee”!?

[@itsmeekers]

Wow they removed the 12 minute gap.

[@lelandroth635]

Recently I had a wonderful obe/dream with a black haired male acquaintance who professionally plays🎹 & then right afterwards Nixon showed up to shake my hand...And that certainly woke me up👀...Huuuuu🎶

[@musicom67]

Try having your teeth cleaned in a dentists' office that was once Nixon's. Now, back to this black haired male acquaintance...

[@lelandroth635]

@@musicom67 lol...my dad grew up with Bob Dole...whom I gave info about Eckankar right after Reagan was shot by Secret Serviceman Jerry Parr...not Bush family friend Hinckley...But, of course, I certainly didn't suggest that to Bob then...but a Vatican Assassins book certainly did😉

[@syncsummit]

I had a dream in the late 80s when for some reason I was at a Mets game and Nixon came up to me in a Mets bomber jacket and baseball cap, shook my hand and said "son, I really enjoy your work..." I do a pretty good Nixon impression, so I would suppose he was intimating his approval of my work in this regard, and not my foreign policy work.

[@briandonegan8480]

Wow. That was shockingly anazing

[@lauracollins5298]

@lauracollins5298 0 seconds ago Nixon’s version of “ Makin’ Whoopee”!?

[@laurahoward5426]

SECRET TAPES!!😱

[@onethreeify]

Are you sure this is from '62? If the "last November" reference is to the election of '60, this must have been made in '61? And, as far as I know, nothing happened to Nixon in November '61, but both in November of '60 and '62 (his failed Gubernatorial race), so that comment ought to place this is either '61 or '63.

[@BravesFan30281]

This aired on March 8, 1963. The best part of the interview is when Parr asks Nixon if Kennedy can be defeated in 1964 and Nixon responds with "Which one?" referring to President Kennedy in the 1964 presidential election and Edward Kennedy in the 1964 Massachusetts Senate election. Parr also poked fun at Nixon's loss in the 1962 California governor election by saying that his 10-year old daughter was worried about Nixon being unemployed and hoped he would find work soon.

[@onethreeify]

thank you!!!@@BravesFan30281

[@CRA5759]

@@BravesFan30281*1962 for Edward Kennedy’s election. He won the same year Nixon lost in California for the Governorship.

[@johnnypastrana6727]

I thought it was a beautiful composition. Why was Paar so rude??? 👎 Hinky dinky song???

[@bk2524]

I didnt think Paar was rude. They were having fun

[@waynejohnson4960]

This was the Tonight Show, before Johnny Carson hosted - meant to be comedy

[@lauracollins5298]

@lauracollins5298 0 seconds ago Nixon’s version of “ Makin’ Whoopee”!?

[@daisyhound9941]

"may not have been a crook"? Oh he was definitely a crook, but a good pianist - if only he'd made that his career instead......