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Richard Nixon: Whittier College
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Nixon entered the Navy as a lieutenant junior-grade in August 1942. He was sent to a naval air base in Iowa. After 6 months there (which he valued because it helped him know the Midwest, the base of his later political support), he was sent to the Pacific as an operations officer with the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command. Fourteen months later he returned to the United States to work as a lawyer in uniform. He was a lieutenant commander in Baltimore when, in September 1945, a group of Whittier Republicans asked him to run for Congress. He jumped at the opportunity, was mustered out of the Navy in January 1946, and began his victorious campaign.
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At Duke, Nixon engaged in none of the political activities that had distinguished him at Whittier. He anticipated a career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. Instead, he returned to Whittier to join the town's oldest law firm. When the firm opened a branch office in La Habra, an adjacent community of 4,000, Nixon's partners acted as the La Habra town government's legal advisers, and Nixon gained experience as a small-town police prosecutor. Concurrently, he litigated corporation and tax cases.
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In Whittier, Nixon joined the law firm of Kroop and Bewley, which within a year became Kroop, Bewley, and Nixon. Active in a variety of business and civic ventures, at the age of 26 he was elected a member of the Whittier College Board of Trustees. Soon after returning to Whittier, Nixon met Thelma Catherine Patricia (Pat) Ryan, a high school teacher. The two were married in 1940; they had two daughters, Patricia and Julie.
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At a community theater tryout in Whittier, Nixon met Thelma Catherine Ryan, known as Patricia, or Pat, who taught shorthand and typing at a local high school. They were married in 1940 and had two daughters, Patricia (Tricia) and Julie. Julie later married David Eisenhower, grandson of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tricia married Edward Cox.
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Patricia accepted a job as a high school teacher in Whittier, and there she met Richard Nixon, who had come home from Duke University to practice law. They became acquainted at a little theater group when they were cast in the same play, and were married on June 21, 1940.
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In 1952, the Republicans nominated Nixon to run with Dwight D. Eisenhower on their national slate. Nixon again used the techniques that had worked for him in the past, describing the Democratic nominee Adlai E. Stevenson as having a "Ph.D. from Dean Acheson's cowardly college of communist containment," referring to Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson at that time.
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