Vaughn Meader (1936–2004) achieved instant fame impersonating President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) in The First Family, a record album that playfully spoofed the Kennedy clan “as though they might be anybody’s next-door neighbor,” Meader explained. The recording sold 7.5 million copies in the year before Kennedy’s death. Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1978) celebrated the album’s welcome within American culture: “This making fun of people in authority is very healthy. It is the difference between democracy and tyranny.”