>>This must have been what it was like with the peace sign about 40 years ago -- young people knew what it meant and older people wondered what the hell it meant.
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>>Mike
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>Mike;
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>The Peace Sign – oh how I remember!
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>Well, President Richard Nixon visited England, and as he departed the airplane he raised his fingers to indicate the Peace Sign. However, what he presented was what is accepted in England and known in the United States as flipping someone the bird, or also known as the one finger salute! :)
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>Tom

He wasn't giving anyone the bird. Just stating that he was only half-way in favor of peace.
Or maybe he didn't know the current meaning and was only halfway confident of the Churchill meaning for same sign.

I seem to recall that at one of (maybe both) of the conventions which nominated him that he was standing on the podium giving the "V for Victory" sign with both arms raised high. That picture became part of the carricature portrayed by many of his impersonators.


When I was stationed in Germany during the early 70's, the little kids would all wave to us soldiers whenever we drove through town. The wave was a peace sign. Everybody below the rank of lifer freely gave the same wave back.