Richard Nixon mask

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A Richard Nixon mask is a mask with the likeness of Richard Nixon. It was commercially available and quite popular in the waning days of the administration. It is generally made out of vinyl by Cesar Mask (fr), a French company, and is sold worldwide. The most famous Nixon mask was the big nose Nixon comical mask that was made by Cesar in the 1970s. Later, other companies made similar versions made from latex rubber or similar flexible castable compounds.

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

Although the masks were widely believed to be only a

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• John E. Fryer - psychiatrist and gay rights activist who wore a Nixon mask to conceal his appearance during a 1972 APA convention
• During
  Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Southern Accents 1985 tour, when "Don't Come Around Here No More" reached the uptempo climax, actors in Nixon and Reagan
  masks came out and chased each other all over the stage.
• One of the bank robbers in the 1991 action film
  Johnson, Carter, and Reagan
  ). Many fictional uses of the mask reference this film.
• In Family Guy, Cleveland Brown is shown wearing one in "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou" episode (2007).
• In the 2021 Netflix action film Army of Thieves the character Brad Cage is shown wearing a Nixon mask during the second robbery.
• The video games Payday: The Heist and Payday 2 have the Nixon mask as an option for character customization.
• In That '70s Show, Eric Forman is shown nude wearing only the mask during a Ford speech in the episode "Streaking".
• In season 3, episode 2 of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, the "Darmine Doggy Door" sketch features a pig wearing a Richard Nixon mask.