Nixon Hood Ornament

A New York friend gave me this little rubber Nixon Head.  It was supposed to slip over a shower head so that you could feel that your shower was actually The President spitting or vomiting on you.  Instead of putting the Head on my shower nozzle, I wired it to the prow of the Impala one day in 1992, thinking I would remove it later in the same day.  Instead, the Nixon Head remained on the car for about two years, during which time it was usually parked in East Oakland or San Francisco.  Anybody who felt like it could have taken the Head in about three seconds, but none did.  The car racked up more than 10,000 miles with the Head leading the way.  On the day of Nixon's death, however, I walked out of my Dumb Temp Job someplace in San Leandro and saw that the wires holding the Head to the grille had been cut.  It was still hanging on the car, but it was facing the ground.  I was rattled by this and immediately headed down to Orange County, to visit the Nixon Museum and Birthplace in Yorba Linda and mingle with the other mourners.  It seemed like a bad move to leave the Head on the car at this point, so it's no longer on the car.