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Nixon had dreamed of attending an Ivy League institution, but he had to settle for tiny Whittier College, a local liberal arts school with ties to the Quaker church. Nixon's career at Whittier was not easy. He commuted to college while ...
Strober, Gerald S., and Deborah H. Strober. Nixon, an Oral History of His Presidency. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. ... New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. By the Washington Post journalists who broke the Watergate burglary story. ———.
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