With only this scene to go on, someone might have concluded that President Richard Nixon was the idol of young voters and African-Americans, which was just the intention of his handlers. It was the night of Tuesday, Aug. 22, 1972. Strolling about the stage at the outdoor Miami Marine Stadium, Sammy Davis Jr., was warbling his own slightly hipper version of the president’s newly unveiled campaign anthem (“Now more than ever, baby, Nixon now!”).

After a long dry spell, Davis had just returned almost to the top of the charts with his anodyne song “The Candy Man” (which he detested) and, despite his history as a Kennedy Democrat, this Rat Pack alumnus had come out for Nixon. Behind Davis were young people with Afros and wearing bell-bottoms, there to remind TV viewers that it was Nixon who had prodded Congress to stop the military draft and lower the voting age to 18.

Republican delegates in Miami Beach had just nominated Nixon for a second term. Striding into view, Nixon pulled out a camera, awkwardly pretending to photograph Davis as he sang. “I don’t think the youth vote is in anybody’s pocket,” Nixon told the crowd. Then, noting Davis’s Democratic lineage, the president insisted that no one could “buy” Davis’s support with a White House invitation, adding, “You are going to buy him by doing something for America!” Davis startled the president by hugging him.

The NYT is afraid to let you see that image. Well I'm not:
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