Richard Nixon mask

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A typical Richard Nixon mask.
A typical Richard Nixon mask.

A Richard Nixon mask is a mask with the features of Richard Nixon. These were commercially available and quite popular in the waning days of the Nixon Administration. They are generally made out of thick latex rubber or similar flexible castable compounds.

One of the notable features of most Richard Nixon masks is the classically caricatured nose. Many of the different versions of the Nixon mask have a wide grinning smile as well.

The masks enjoyed a brief initial period of popularity as a fad and sparked a commercial demand for masks resembling famous people, most notably Presidents of the United States. For its part, the Richard Nixon mask remains popular today, worn both for humorous effect, and in peace marches and similar "public displays of disaffection". According to Harper's magazine's October 2002 "Index", Nixon masks were the best-selling political mask for the previous five years for top U.S. costume wholesaler Morris Costumes. [1]

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