The popular NPR show “Talk of the Nation” was canceled in 2013 after a bit more than two decades on the air, according to The New York Times. It was on this call-in-style news show in 1991 — only one year after the program premiered — that some listeners believed that Richard Nixon was set to announce he was running again for the presidency. Per Constitution Center, no president is allowed to serve more than two complete terms, consecutive or otherwise. But whether a president could resign in his second term only to seek reelection later has never been tested.
Adding to the veracity of Nixon’s statement was the most Nixon-like of campaign slogans. “I didn’t do anything wrong, and I won’t do it again,” the voice on NPR radio said, to the dismay of many listeners. Problem is, those listeners forgot to first check the date before they reacted — it was April Fools’ Day.
