The Nixon You Never Knew - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Few American presidents have ever sparked the sort of visceral reaction in American citizens -- and, indeed, around the world -- as the 37th man to hold the office, Richard Milhous Nixon. His supporters, especially early in his career, loved him. His detractors -- well, not to put too fine a point on it, they absolutely despised him. But love him or hate him, Nixon was a remarkably complex, contradictory man, often confounding allies and enemies alike with pronouncements and policy decisions that seemed, at first, to follow a logic known only to the notoriously private man from tiny Yorba Linda, California. Pictured: Four-year-old Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) poses in a sailor suit in 1917. Nixon was born to a strict Quaker household scarred by tragedy. Two of his brothers died before he was 21, and when he was 9, the family ranch failed, forcing the Nixons to move to nearby Whittier, Calif.
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