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Nixon’s rise from Whittier to the White House
A biographical sketch recounts Nixon’s early life in Yorba Linda and Whittier, his college achievements at Duke, and his Navy service. It covers his 1946 House win, 1950s rise, Hiss case role, the Checkers Speech, Kitchen Debate, and 1960 presidential race.
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Nixon
California
Walter Dexter
Whittier College
Richard Milhous Nixon
Yorba Linda
Whittier
Harvard Club of California
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Dexter
America
Duke
Duke Bar Association
Thelma Ryan
Pat
Ely
New
Office of Price Administration
Washington
NAVY
South Pacific
Congress
Voorhis
Richard M. Nixon
Voorh
House
Senate
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Alger Hiss
Hiss
House un-American Affairs Committee
Harry Truman
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Chicago
John C. Breckenridge
James Buchanan
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Moscow
John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Edmund G. “Pat” Brown