# Pauline Kael on Richard Nixon -- true?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pauline-kael-on-richard-nixon-true/273786 "2004-11-09T03:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pauline-kael-on-richard-nixon-true/273786/21 "2004-11-09T22:09:41Z")

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> I remember him! He did “The Phantom Tollbooth” which I enjoyed as youngster. [Here’s a short bio on him.](http://www.bookrags.com/biography/jules-ralph-feiffer/)

Jules Feiffer just did the illustrations for “The Phantom Tollbooth”. It was written by Norton Juster.

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**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pauline-kael-on-richard-nixon-true/273786/22 "2004-11-10T01:03:31Z")

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No, you’re mixed up. Jules Norton and Justin Feifer were a song and dance team in the 20’s who were in the movie,\* The Tollhouse Phaeton. \*

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pauline-kael-on-richard-nixon-true/273786/23 "2004-11-10T06:29:10Z")

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Fred Shapiro over at the American Dialect Society found this for us:

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> Here’s a definitive answer. Pauline Kael spoke at the MLA conference in 1972. The New York Times, 28 Dec. 1972, p. 33, quotes her as  
> follows:
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> “‘I live in a rather special world,’ Miss Kael said, continuing: ‘I only  
> know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know.  
> They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel  
> them.’”

At least, that would show where the Kael connection originated.

Another poster over there volunteered that he remembered from 4th grade someone saying that they didn’t know how Truman won–everyone they knew voted for Dewey.

Working on taking it back a bit beyone Ms. Kael.

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