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Richard Milhous Nixon, on Tape, 1972 GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM “THIS IS TREASON.” — “I KNOW.” “Look at the Justice Department, it’s full of Jews.... Listen, the lawyers in government are damn Jews.” — President Richard Milhous Nixon, on tape, 1972 “...a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.” — President Richard Milhous Nixon, on tape, 1972 HDT WHAT? INDEX “THIS IS TREASON.” “I KNOW.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM “I’d rather use the nuclear bomb.... The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you? I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ’s sake.... You’re so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don’t give a damn.” — President Richard Milhous Nixon, on tape, 1972 VIETNAM ATOM BOMB “Fiddle-dee-dee, war, war, war, I get so bored I could scream!” —Scarlet O’Hara “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project “THIS IS TREASO HDT WHAT? INDEX “I KNOW.” “THIS IS TREASON.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1913 January 9, Thursday: In the afternoon, Alabama time, one of the boilers on the cargo steamboat Jas. T. Staples exploded while it was docked at Powes landing on the Tombigbee River, killing 26 and injuring 21. Then that night at 9:35PM, California time, Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda to Francis Anthony “Frank” Nixon and Friend Hannah Milhous Nixon (as the offspring of a mother who was a member in good standing of a Friends church, the infant would of course be regarded as a “birthright” Quaker — and in fact this Friends “church” would never bring itself to disown him). Afonso Augusto da Costa replaced Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva as prime minister of Portugal. A ballet produced to Gabriel Fauré’s Dolly op.56 was performed for the initial time, at the Théâtre des Arts, Paris. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “THIS IS TREASON.” “Stack of the Artist of HDT WHAT? INDEX “THIS IS TREASON.” “I KNOW.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1930 Richard Milhous Nixon attended Whittier College just outside Los Angeles (although Whittier is at least nominally a Quaker institution of higher education, and Dick was a “birthright” Friend, there is no record that during his formal education he ever involved himself in religious studies or activities). The well-known self-help pastor Norman Vincent Peale, a strong Nixon supporter, airily dismissed any religious liability when he commented on his candidate’s Quaker faith: “I don’t know that he ever let it bother him,” a nice summary of the way most politicians operated at that level. Religion was there all right, lurking in the background, but it made little difference Others who knew him had similar assessments. — Professor H Larry Ingle Dean Elbert Russell prepared THE BOOK OF REVELATION: WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PARAPHRASE AND NOTES (360 pages). Dr. David Tillerson Smith was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical School. Duke Hospital came into existence. Fungal infections being more prevalent in the South than in the North, a working team consisting of a Mycologist, a Pathologist, an Immunologist, a Dermatologist, and an Internist began to study the problem in depth. The disease pellagra was rampant in the southern states causing thousands of deaths each year and great physical disability. Dr. Goldberger demonstrated that pellagra was due to a dietary deficiency and could be reproduced in human volunteers. The missing vitamin factor (later shown to be nicotinic acid, known as “niacin,” found in red meat, fresh vegetables, and dairy products) was not identified then and no explanation was offered for the dramatic appearance of local skin lesions and of gastrointestinal symptoms after brief exposure to sunlight (contributing causes were the cash-crop farming and share-cropping that caused farm families to devote all their time and energy to raising items that could be sold, people moving into towns where livestock was prohibited and there was no room for a vegetable garden, and new roller mills that eliminated vital nutrients). Dr. Smith working with Dr. Julian Ruffin, a Gastroenterologist (also a deceased member of this Association) clearly showed that the skin lesions, the gastrointestinal symptoms and even dementia could be precipitated by the exposure of part of a limb to direct sunlight for one HDT WHAT? INDEX “I KNOW.” “THIS IS TREASON.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM or two hours when the patient was deficient in the pellagra preventing factor (niacin) in his tissues. After therapy, much longer exposure to sunlight produced normal tanning with neither local skin lesions nor systemic symptoms. Smith and Ruffin found that a crude liver extract was twice as potent as yeast introduced in therapy by Goldberger. Although they did not discover the missing vitamin (niacin) they were among the first to assay its dosage and evaluate its effectiveness in pellagra. David Smith was a quiet gentlemanly scholar beloved by his students as a teacher and respected by his colleagues for his vast knowledge extending across several fields of medicine. Although known primarily for his research efforts in the microbiological field, his intimate understanding of the effects of tuberculosis, fungus infection and fusospirochetal disease in man forced his colleagues to regard him as the premier clinical consultant for many undiagnosed chronic pulmonary problems. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. HDT WHAT? INDEX “THIS IS TREASON.” “I KNOW.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1934 Richard Milhous Nixon attended the recently established Duke University Law School in Durham, North Carolina, at which he had received a full scholarship and where he would be awarded the nickname “Iron Butt” by other students on account of his disciplined study habits at the Law Library. “I always remember that whatever I have done in the past, or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.” At one point during his education at Duke, Nixon broke into the dean’s office to inspect his grades (locally, in good humor, this has been referred to as “Nixon’s First Break-in”). Since Nixon was in Durham during the years 1934-1937 and the local Quaker monthly meeting had not yet come into existence, I see no point in wondering whether there might be any connection. HDT WHAT? INDEX “I KNOW.” “THIS IS TREASON.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM While studying the law in Durham, Nixon resided in the 2-story blue house that is now located at 814 Clarendon Street (y). However, Clarendon Street was not then known as Clarendon but as 6th Street, nor did the house then stand at its present location. It stood a block farther south at (x), on what has become part of Duke’s East Campus and is now used by field hockey teams. y x The street is gone The house is gone The bed is gone And, Richard is gone Dr. David Tillerson Smith became a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tuberculosis Association. Returning from his sabbatical world tour, Dr. Elbert Russell resumed being dean of the Duke School of Religion (until 1941). Friend Elbert’s “Does Jesus Provide an Adequate Philosophy of Life?” appeared in Beacon Lights No. 3 and “Others” appeared in Beacon Lights No. 4. In about this year his “Washington’s Greatness” appeared in Friends’ Intelligencer. HDT WHAT? INDEX “THIS IS TREASON.” “I KNOW.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1936 February 10, Monday: The German Gestapo was announced to be above the law (same attitude as would be taken in another later context, by our Quaker President, Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon, in regard to his Attorney General John Mitchell — and to himself as his cabinet officer’s superior). WORLD WAR II RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON “[President Richard Milhous Nixon] will, with time, be a landmark in the history of quiet, determined desperation.” — Murray Kempton WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF “THIS IS TREASON.” “Stack of the Artist of HDT WHAT? INDEX “I KNOW.” “THIS IS TREASON.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1937 November 14, Sunday: The Durham, North Carolina Monthly Meeting of Friends had its inception at a small supper meeting in the home of Friend Elbert Russell and Friend Lieuetta Russell at 811 Vickers Avenue. Among those present were Friend David Tillerson Smith and Friend Susan Gower Smith. This had begun at the request of Duke University president William Preston Few (a professor of English), who was concerned to ensure that the religious needs of Quaker faculty and Quaker students be met. The group would meet of an evening in private homes at first, and would then continue in 1938 by using the Social Room of the Divinity School, then using its York Chapel, and then in a space in the basement at the rear of the University Chapel. This expanding group would make contact with some other Friends organizations and would on Sunday, December 12th, 1943, formally establish itself as an independent Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends under the auspices of the American Friends Fellowship Council in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In that year formal minutes would be filed for posterity, although there must have been prior unrecorded decisionmaking with regard to where to meet, child care, and then deciding not to initially affiliate with one of the North Carolina yearly meetings but instead to make contact with and initially affiliate with the AFFC group in Philadelphia. HDT WHAT? INDEX “THIS IS TREASON.” “I KNOW.” GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM It is to be noted that as of the November initiation of this Quaker worship group, a nominal Quaker by the name of Richard Milhous Nixon had already departed from the Durham community, with his law degree in his pocket from the Duke Law School.
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