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YouTube really is a miracle. I trolled around in there yesterday more extensively than I ever have before and found, among other things, a clip from the debate between William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal at the time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention–the famous exchange that ends with Vidal calling Buckley a “crypto-fascist” and Buckley calling Vidal a “goddam queer,” then threatening to punch him in the face. I’d always wanted to see it. The quality of the video is so poor, unfortunately, that it’s not really worth watching. Maybe somebody else will post a better clip someday.

But this is a true masterpiece of toe-curling tension: Richard Nixon chatting and joshing with the TV crew in the Oval Office just before going on the air to announce his resignation.