NEWSTALK 860 » richard nixon http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Who Knew? Nixon Had a Sensitive Romantic Side http://ksfa860.com/who-knew-nixon-had-a-sensitive-romantic-side/ http://ksfa860.com/who-knew-nixon-had-a-sensitive-romantic-side/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:41:23 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=52026 Richard Nixon's love letters to Patricia Ryan -- who he later married -- showed he was a hopelessly romantic young man. Written in 1938, the letters reveal Nixon -- a man known for hardball, down and dirty politics -- had an idealistic and even poetic side.

The letters show that long before Nixon became the most powerful man in the world -- only to be forced to resign in disgrace -- he was just another ordinary young guy head over heels in love.

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