Forward, April 29th, 1994
Abigail Wisse Forward 04-29-1994 Richard Nixon.
One feature of President Nixon's personality that caught our imagination is that he was a poker player. Unlike the lesser games -- chess, say -- poker is not so much a challenge to the intellect as to the whole character, including patience and endurance as well as saichel. It is said that young Nixon financed his first political campaign in part from money he made playing cards in the Navy. He went on to rack up in politics enormous winnings as well as losses, though we will never forgive his treatment, early in his career, of Jerry Voorhis a...
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