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Richard Nixon It was touching to see Dick getting choked up at his wife's funeral. He knew he owed Pat a lot. He had devoted almost all of his energies to his career while paying her very little attention. Then he got caught up in that Watergate mess and had to resign from office, which was humiliating for her, too. After all, she was married to the schmuck. After we no longer had Dick Nixon to kick around, Pat did. But she didn't leave him. She stuck by her man, even though she had every reason to swat his fanny with a splintery bamboo stick. Dick, who died in 1994, was never known as passionate or romantic. He was stiff and awkward and never showed Pat any public affection. He didn't believe in smooching outdoors in front of folks. And we never heard much about extramarital affairs, although there were rumors about a cocktail waitress he met in Hong Kong during the 1950s. She even moved to his hometown of Whittier, California, shortly after he became President. But she denied there had been any affair. Few of us have ever put the words "Nixon" and "sex" in the same sentence. We never thought of him that way. We didn't think he had time for sleeping around. We figured he was too busy updating his enemies list or hanging out with Bebe Rebozo. We may have called this disgraced man a lot of things, but we never said he had a tricky dick. |
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