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The Nixon You Didn't Know

Little Dicky

Little Dicky

Four-year-old Richard Nixon 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 his father suffered financial failure.

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Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1917
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