It is a long-standing tradition for the U.S. Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp honoring a U.S. president shortly after their death. The 32-cent stamp for Richard M. Nixon, issued in 1995, followed this tradition. However, due to the Watergate scandal and his subsequent resignation from the presidency, Nixon remained a deeply divisive figure in American life. The release of the stamp was met with a significant amount of public criticism and humor. A newspaper columnist famously remarked, "this is one guy whose backside I do not care to lick." The controversy and the public's reaction make the Richard Nixon stamp a "strange" entry in the pantheon of presidential postal tributes. In a further strange twist, error versions of this stamp, with the red "Richard Nixon" text inverted, were stolen by a printing plant employee and entered the collector market.