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Nixon Keeps Promise Girls Will Go To College
In La Paz Bolivia two Bolivian twin sisters Judith and Ruth Leonardini, now 18, will receive U.S. college scholarships after President Nixon fulfilled a 1958 promise to their mother. Nixon, then vice president, met the girls during a Latin America tour and pledged scholarships after their graduation. State Department is set to arrange interviews and funding through the U.S. embassy in La Paz.
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