Thank you for this piece of history unknown to me so far. I think that more peopel are needed to show this courage if we want to change the world to the better. It really makes me feel proud to belong to the generation of the 68.
Many thanks from switzerland
Posted by: Walter | February 07, 2010 at 06:09 AM
Hey even Nixon thought Ray Conniff was "square". Wow, thats just great. In those days they never did background checks apparently. Good for her. Now if only this happened after Watergate!
Posted by: Aaron | February 07, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Wow impressive, especially by comparison to presidential event crashers these days who seem to consider getting on TV for doing so an end rather than a means.
Posted by: bartleby | February 07, 2010 at 09:43 AM
I guess a modern-day equivalent would be this gentleman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LHtgzqTo0
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/800/1/
Posted by: bartleby | February 07, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Leave it to Richard Nixon to be a Ray Coniff fan. "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me" is about a far from a protest song as you could get.
Posted by: Kevin MacNutt | February 07, 2010 at 05:59 PM
Wow, good for the lady (I'm not sure how to spell her name.) She had guts. As for Nixon's musical taste.... well, he said it perfectly: the Ray Conniff singers were the equivalent of the Reader's Digest.
Posted by: Ivy | February 09, 2010 at 07:28 AM
Was this the video in which Nixon commented on the incident? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1_JGX3jVY
Posted by: Ivy | February 09, 2010 at 07:30 AM
What's interesting is that my dad, Ray, actually had John Lennon's "Imagine" in the music books that night. His music may have been considered "square" by some, but his arrangements were nothing but. And, he managed to have a 60-year career in music, no small feat.
Posted by: Tamarastar | February 10, 2010 at 02:37 PM
Nixon - a disgusting man.Almost as bad are those artists, like Mr. Conniff, who, instead of questioning power,challenging injustice and promoting peace and democracy, simply are in the pay of corrupt power brokers, echoing and amplifying their bloody propaganda.Sickening.
Posted by: eclectik | February 23, 2010 at 07:17 PM
Love Systems has never preached that you have to be "the best" to succeed. That would be pretty hard for us to be consistent with anyway, They can't all be the best. But they can all be very, very good. And that comes from being at your best...or being your best self. Maybe those words are what's causing the confusion?replica watches
Posted by: Vashgerlie | July 02, 2010 at 12:46 AM
I don't speak english, I speak portuguese. voces são uanderful, bealtiful.
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Posted by: Lucio Leite de Oliveira | January 24, 2012 at 05:30 PM
@Roxy
Hey man, what is she doing nowadays? She deserves applause. I just learn about the events and I am googling to find info about her, but haven't found much so far...
cheers
Posted by: Luiz | December 23, 2012 at 04:25 AM
Who is that worthless bitch? She basically sided with Communist genocide that night. She cared nothing for human rights. If she had she would have condemned the Communists for attaching South Vietnam.
Posted by: Ted McCarron | August 01, 2013 at 11:46 PM
Here's Ray Coniff's group singing the complete "Ma -- He's Making Eyes at Me".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWQ1pzkMp8
Posted by: Rowby | August 03, 2013 at 01:16 AM
oddly enough, Nixon was the one president since Vietnam started who actually put effort into ending it. He worked tirelessly w/ the south vietnamese govt to make arrangements to extract troops whereas Kennedy started our involvement there and LBJ escalated it. So, idiotic displays like this, were counterintuitive.
Posted by: Ed Borden | August 11, 2013 at 06:34 AM