""Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you. Yet I have no feeling of selfish ownership or jealousy. "In fact I should always want you to live just as you wanted -- because if you didn't you would change and wouldn't be you. Let's go for a long ride Sundays; let's go to the mountains weekends; let's read books in front of fires; most of all, let's really grow together and find the happiness we know is ours." The dewy-eyed romantic writing those words? Richard Nixon.
On Friday the first in a series of handwritten love letters between a young Richard Nixon and a young Pat Ryan went on display at the Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. The letters began in 1938 -- when they met while auditioning for a community play -- and extended almost up until their wedding day two years later. Former President Nixon died in 1994, the year after Pat Nixon's death. She would have been 100 this month. The exhibit at the Nixon Library featuring the love letters will almost certainly reignite the debate about the most controversial and enigmatic U.S. political figure of the last hundred years. Who -- not only in the end, but at the beginning -- was Nixon? For all his fame, did anyone truly know him? Most American adults long ago made up their minds about what they think of Nixon, pro or con. But, with the new focus this month on the Nixon Library and Museum, I hope that at least some of you will someday make the trip to Yorba Linda, will leave your political passions at the door for a bit, and will take in something that is absolutely haunting in its quiet power.
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/18/opinion/greene-nixon/index.html
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