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#tbt: Richard Nixon Smiles! With Roll Call’s Mort Kondracke

Nixon, left, with Kondracke. (CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Nixon, left, with Kondracke. (CQ Roll Call File Photo)
By Jason Dick
Posted August 7, 2014 at 11:05am

President Richard Nixon had a life after leaving the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974, and part of it can be glimpsed in this undated-but-most-definitely-post-1970s pic from the Roll Call archives with our own Morton M. Kondracke, former executive editor and current contributing editor. Not to look too much into it, but Nixon looks relaxed, smiling even.

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