Richard Nixon, US President

Nixon
Richard M Nixon was born on the 9th of January 1913 in Yorba Linda, and when he was nine his family moved to Whittier in California. This was where his father ran a little petrol station and grocery store.
When he was 17 he entered Whittier College, a Quaker institution where Student politics and debates distinguished his college years. In 1934 he won a scholarship to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. At Duke however Nixon didn't participate in any of the political activities he had been so active in at Whittier, but he studied traditional law.
He wanted a career in the FBI…