Bring Us Together
January, 1970
On November 7, 1968, the then President-elect paused in his victory statement to recall a campaign vignette that he said had touched him. At the end of a long day of whistle stopping in Ohio, Richard Nixon said, he had seen a teenager holding up a sign bearing the legend Bring Us Together. "That will be the great objective of this Administration at the outset," he announced, "to bring the American people together." Reporters subsequently discovered that the girl with the sign...
