Nixon Born: Architect of Detente and Watergate
He applied to Harvard and was accepted. His family couldn't afford it. Nixon went to Whittier College instead, then Duke Law School on scholarship. He lost the presidency in 1960 to Kennedy, then the California governorship in 1962, and told the press "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Six years later he was president. He opened China, created the EPA, ended the military draft. Then he approved the cover-up of a hotel break-in, resigned in disgrace, and became the only president to do so.
January 9, 1913
113 years ago
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