New PDF release: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon

By Richard Milhous Nixon

ISBN-10: 0448143747

ISBN-13: 9780448143743

The previous president recounts his lifestyles and political rises and falls, targeting the occasions, family and overseas, of his presidency and people major as much as his exceptional resignation.

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While the Franklins were socially oriented, the Orthogonians recruited mostly athletes and men who were working their way through school. The Franklins posed for their yearbook pictures wearing tuxedos; we posed for our pictures wearing open-necked shirts. We were officially dedicated to what, with our collegiate exuberance, we called the Four B’s: Beans, Brawn, Brain, and Bowels. Our motto was Écrasons l’infame—“Stamp out evil”—and our symbol was a boar’s head. Although only a freshman, I was elected the first president of the Orthogonians, and I wrote our constitution and our song.

When I was in college my grandmother gave me a biography of Gandhi, which I read from cover to cover. Gandhi’s concept of peaceful change and passive resistance appealed to her, and she had a deep Quaker opposition to any racial or religious prejudice. Grandmother Milhous belonged to the generation of Quakers who used the plain speech. ” I loved to listen when my mother and my aunts, none of whom used the plain speech in their own homes, would slip back into it while talking with her or with each other.

He also taught me the fundamentals of the violin. Probably because of Uncle Griffith’s urgings, my parents decided to give my musical abilities a real test. My mother’s sister Jane had studied piano at the Metropolitan School of Music in Indianapolis and was an accomplished performer and teacher. She lived with her own family in Lindsay, another Quaker enclave, in central California. It was decided that I should live with them for half a year and take lessons from her. Right after a family reunion at my grandmother’s house in December 1924, I went home with Aunt Jane and Uncle Harold Beeson and my cousins Alden and Sheldon.

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