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Who Knew? Nixon Had a Sensitive Romantic Side
Who Knew? Nixon Had a Sensitive Romantic Side
Who Knew? Nixon Had a Sensitive Romantic Side
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 an