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Nouasseur Air Base, Morocco, March, 1957: Vice President Richard Nixon talks with U.S. airmen at Nouasseur Air Base in Morocco. Nixon’s goodwill tour of the African country got off to a raucous start when, according to a news account, he “tossed protocol overboard by climbing out of his open car and mingling with the screaming Moroccan crowds mobbing his route into (Rabat).”

Nouasseur Air Base, Morocco, March, 1957: Vice President Richard Nixon talks with U.S. airmen at Nouasseur Air Base in Morocco. Nixon’s goodwill tour of the African country got off to a raucous start when, according to a news account, he “tossed protocol overboard by climbing out of his open car and mingling with the screaming Moroccan crowds mobbing his route into (Rabat).” (Gene Bane/Stars and Stripes)

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