i always had the drive of my father behind me, saying i had to quit when i was in the sixth grade so, you re going to do better. when we came in as freshmen, dick nixon was something of an opportunist. he wasn t athletic, but he went out for the football team. this was deliberate because the image served him well since this would contribute to his election as student body president, as a leader on campus. i worked my way through college and through law school. in 1940 probably the best thing that ever happened to me happened. i married pat.
we have a house in whittier, california which cost 13,000 i own a 1950 oldsmobile we have no stocks and bonds of any type. my wife s sitting over here. pat doesn t have a mink coat. but she does have a respectable republican cloth coat. and i always tell her that she d look good in anything. one other thing i probably should tell you because if i don t they ll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something, a gift after the election. you know what it was? it was a little cocker spaniel dog, black and white spotted. and our little girl trisha, the 6-year-old, named it checkers. and you know, the kids like all kids love the dog, and i just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it we re going to keep it.
year from a non-political we got a house in washington. we have a house in whittier, california which cost 13,000 i own a 1950 oldsmobile we have no stocks and bonds of any type. my wife s sitting over here. pat doesn t have a mink coat. but she does have a respectable republican cloth coat. and i always tell her that she d look good in anything. one other thing i probably should tell you because if i don t they ll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something, a gift after the election. you know what it was? it was a little cocker spaniel dog, black and white spotted. and our little girl trisha, the 6-year-old, named it checkers. and you know, the kids like all kids love the dog, and i just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it we re going to keep it.
thing that ever happened to me happened. i married pat. she was a beautiful girl, and she was a very remarkable person too. her mother died when she was about 9 years of age. her father died when she was 16. and still graduated from usc with honors. in 1942 i went into the service. i enlisted in the navy. i was convinced that with this aggression that was sweeping across the globe that no one could stand aside. how jubilant was the taste of victory, how sweet the rewards of peace. i received a wire from an old friend. the banker in our hometown, whittier, california, saying
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