Nobody for President

Nobody for President was a parodic campaign for the United States presidential election, 1976.

Wavy Gravy, master of ceremonies for the Woodstock Festival and official clown of the Grateful Dead, is believed to have nominated Nobody at the Yippe national convention outside the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in 1976.[1][2] Another of those responsible, Arthur Hoppe (a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle) claims to have distributed "several thousand" Nobody for President campaign buttons and to have written "dozens of columns extolling Nobody's virtues".[3]

The organizers of the campaign staged a ticker-tape parade down a boulevard in Berkeley, California, with motorcycle police flanking a convertible limousine occupied by nobody.[4] The campaign's slogans included "Nobody's perfect" and "Nobody should have too much power".[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Bogad, Larry (2005). Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd. p. 32. ISBN 0415332249.
  2. ↑ Urgo, Joseph (1991). Novel Frames. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 198. ISBN 0878055304.
  3. ↑ Hoppe, Arthur (1995). Having a Wonderful Time. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 100. ISBN 081181145X.
  4. ↑ Sumano, Ajahn (1999). Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest. Wheaton: Quest Books. p. 78. ISBN 0835607747.
  5. ↑ The Economist. Economist Newspaper Ltd. 317 (7679-7682). 1990. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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