All Our Nixons

How New York’s original graphic-design team caricatured a crooked president.

Richard Nixon inadvertently helped New York grow up. The magazine was founded in 1968, the year he was elected to the presidency. A few years later, coverage of the Watergate scandal launched New York into the business of covering national affairs regularly. In those years, he appeared on our cover ten times. ¶ In their new book Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines, Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard—who first collaborated in 1968 as New York’s founding design director and art director, and continue to do so today—recount their decades of editorial work, here and elsewhere. We asked about the covers they conceived and assigned when Tricky Dick, rather than Tiny Hands, was the man sweating out the prospect of impeachment.