{"id":14600,"date":"2016-01-22T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2016-01-15T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T00:10:09","slug":"10-things-you-may-not-know-about-richard-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14600","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You May Not Know About Richard Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cristopher Klein and History.com\u00a0<\/b>present 10 Things You May Not Know About Richard Nixon<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n

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1. Lee Harvey Oswald may have plotted to assassinate Nixon. <\/strong><\/span>
\nIn the early morning of November 22, 1963, Richard Nixon rode through Dallas to the airport to fly home after attending a Pepsi-Cola board meeting. Nixon saw the preparations for the motorcade that hours later would carry John F. Kennedy, the man who defeated him for the presidency three years prior, on the streets of the city\u2019s downtown. After Nixon landed in New York, he learned that Kennedy had been gunned down in that motorcade. In a further coincidence, the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald testified to the Warren Commission that in April 1963 the alleged assassin read a local newspaper report, tucked a pistol in his belt, and told her, \u201cNixon is coming. I want to go and have a look.\u201d After locking him in a bathroom, Oswald\u2019s wife convinced him to turn over his gun. The account was puzzling, since Nixon was not in Dallas in April 1963 and no newspaper mentioned any visit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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3. Community theater brought Richard and Pat Nixon together.<\/strong><\/span>
\nNixon first encountered his future first lady as a leading lady in 1938 when both auditioned for the Whittier Community Players production of \u201cThe Dark Tower.\u201d The amateur theater production led to a romance between Nixon and Thelma Catherine Ryan, nicknamed \u201cPat\u201d by her father because she was born on the eve of St. Patrick\u2019s Day. Foreshadowing their later lives, the couple wed in the presidential suite of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, on June 21, 1940. \u00a0[Richard Nixon as an actor? \u00a0Or interested in acting? \u00a0I would have never guessed. – Craig]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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6. Nixon was an avid bowler. <\/strong><\/span>
\nOne of Nixon\u2019s favorite pastimes in the White House was bowling. He\u2019d even bowl a few frames dressed in his suit. In addition to using the alley in the adjacent Old Executive Office Building, Nixon had another one-lane alley built in the basement beneath the North Portico entrance to the White House.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cristopher Klein and History.com\u00a0present 10 Things You May Not Know About Richard Nixon.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14601,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}