42 years ago today on the White House lawn.

Nixon's famous helicopter departure from the White House lawn as narrated by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather on CBS News on August 9, 1974.

In a week of significant anniversaries, here's another.

The day after Philippe Petit walked between the World Trade Center towers in New York City in 1974, Richard Nixon tried to distract our attention from that feat by calling a press conference in Washington.

Have you taken the Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz yet?

Here are my results on the 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz taken earlier today (with recent dropouts crossed out):

95% Mike Gravel
95% Dennis Kucinich
84% Chris Dodd
83% Barack Obama
82% John Edwards
81% Joe Biden
80% Hillary Clinton
72% Bill Richardson
35% Rudy Giuliani
27% Ron Paul
20% John McCain
15% Tom Tancredo
14% Mitt Romney
14% Mike Huckabee
5% Fred Thompson

Before you laugh at mine, get your results here: 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz