Recent discovery about a favorite musical

I learned from TCM on July 4th that the musical 1776 as I always knew and loved it was missing 35 minutes that had been cut at the request of President Nixon before its release in theaters! One of the cuts was a song about how the congressmen against declaring the revolution were conservative men, moving "always to right, never to the left." In addition, there was some dialogue and an intro to another song cut. Mostly, he requested some scenes that made the founding fathers look excessively foolish be removed. I loved 1776 before and I love it now. It has incredible dialogue, and there is not a single number that I would fast-forward through (which I cannot say about all musicals)!