Stan Laurel was the creative mind behind one of the all time great comedy partnerships with Oliver Hardy. Laurel starred in his first film in 1917 but did not achieve international success until he was teamed up with rotund Hardy to form Laurel and Hardy in 1926.

They appeared together for the first time in the movie Duck Soup. Their first feature film was Pardon Us. They won an Academy Award in 1933 for The Music Box, the trials of two removal men attempting to get a piano up an enormous flight of steps. [Link watch Flying Deuces.]

Nixon calls for an end to military operations in North Vietnam in an attempt to allow the peace process negotiated by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho to succeed.