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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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