The Old Timers Club

[AKvetch]

Northwesterner, you are half right; he did not say "Richard Nixon", but he also did not say "Dick Nixon". He simply said "Nixon". AK

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Richard Milhous Nixon [this article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of American Political Parties]

... Nixon ran for governor of California in 1962, but he had never been a locally active politician and his years in Washington had made him out of touch with the situation in California. He lost soundly to incumbent Pat Brown. In a press conference shortly after the results were announced, Nixon berated the media for giving him a hard time since the Hiss case, urged greater fairness in political coverage, and claimed that this would be his last press conference. "You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore," he said. He took a job as a Wall Street lawyer, but soon tired of private life and took to the campaign trail in 1966, stumping successfully for Republican congressional candidates and bringing himself once again into the heart of Republican party affairs. ...