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A road trip with Richard Nixon would seem like gum surgery on wheels. But Hunter S. Thompson actually went on a road trip with Nixon--or, anyway, on a car ride--in New Hampshire during the 1968 presidential campaign. Hunter described it in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72: There were only two of us in the back: just me and Richard Nixon, and we were talking football in a serious way. . . . It was a very weird trip; probably one of the weirdest things I've ever done, and especially weird because both Nixon and I enjoyed it. What's weirder yet is that Nixon might have had greater success than Kennedy as president. He