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A fact from Lillian Brown appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 November 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lillian Brown, makeup artist to nine U.S. presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he went on television to resign the presidency?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:46, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Lillian Brown stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he went on TV to resign the Presidency and helped Speaker of the House Carl Albert with his Bugtussle? Source: Part I: "On Aug. 8, 1974, Lillian Brown ... was urgently summoned to the White House, where she saw President Richard M. Nixon sobbing. ... he was about to go on national television and announce that he was resigning. If he didn’t stop crying, she knew, his makeup would streak down his face. 'He was in bad shape,' Ms. Brown recalled years later. 'We had six minutes to air, and I thought, What can I do for this man?' She tried humor. She reminded him of the time one Christmas when his Irish setter, King Timahoe, kept bumping into the tree and destroying the ornaments. To get the dog away from the tree, Ms. Brown took him into a bathroom, and somehow, as if scripted by the Marx Brothers, she, the dog and Nixon all ended up locked in the loo by the Secret Service. Nixon burst into laughter. With no time to spare, Ms. Brown made him presentable, and he went before the cameras." and Part II: "One of her clients was House Speaker Carl Albert (D), who wanted to reduce his Oklahoma twang. She recommended he slow down the cadence of his speech and take care in pronouncing each word — but Albert did not want to go too far. 'Just take out half the Bugtussle,' he told Ms. Brown. 'What’s Bugtussle?' she asked. 'That’s my hometown. I have to go back there and get elected!'
- ALT1:... that Lillian Brown, makeup artist to nine U.S Presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he went on TV to resign the Presidency? Source: The nine presidents bit is reported in multiple sources including The Washington Post here: "Lillian Brown, makeup artist and image consultant for nine presidents, dies at 106."

Reviewed: David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:06, 8 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, article sourced, neutral and plagiarism free, hooks cited and interesting, though I prefer ALT1. There seems to be some issues with the image in the article. Corachow (talk) 17:48, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The image is a legitimate, fair use photograph of a deceased person and is not proposed to appear on the Main Page. The image is simply awaiting the bot to reduce image size, which typically occurs within 24 hours. Cbl62 (talk) 19:24, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Corachow: A PD image has now been swapped. Can you now clear this? Thanks. Cbl62 (talk) 18:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. Corachow (talk) 18:51, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]