http://www.blogsnh.com/drupal/blog_entry/ken_braiterman/just_when_i_thought_i_knew_richard_nixon Comments for "Just when I thought I knew Richard Nixon...." en http://www.blogsnh.com/drupal/blog_entry/ken_braiterman/just_when_i_thought_i_knew_richard_nixon <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>         </span>I got a whole new angle on Richard Nixon last week from a woman who went to Whittier High School and College with him, “And back then he was ALL RIGHT,” said Allie Darling Lowe, 92 going on 70. (Allie would come to despise everything Nixon came to stand for.)<span>  </span>Allie’s father was a CPA in Whittier. He helped Nixon get started in law and politics when he came back to town after the War.  Allie&#39;s brother was threatened during Nixon’s notorious U.S. Senate campaign against Helen Douglass, and her father made Nixon back off.  And her father introduced Nixon to the local oilmen who elected him to Congress in 1946,  and put together the fund that led to the famous “Checkers speech” in 1952.</font></font></p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> <p><a href="http://www.blogsnh.com/drupal/blog_entry/ken_braiterman/just_when_i_thought_i_knew_richard_nixon">read more</a></p> http://www.blogsnh.com/drupal/blog_entry/ken_braiterman/just_when_i_thought_i_knew_richard_nixon#comment Concord and around Greater Concord Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:18:36 -0400 Ken Braiterman 1050 at http://www.blogsnh.com/drupal