Richard Nixon in 1987: "You Didn't All Go To Harvard, Did You?
"Hands clasped behind his back, he was a silent silhouette as he gazed out the window overlooking the Washington skyline.
"Hearing our entrance, former President Richard Nixon turned and crossed the room to greet us. 'You didn't all go to Harvard, did you?' he asked with a smile. None of us had, something that clearly appealed to the graduate of Whittier College. Ironically, the only Harvard graduate in our midst was Hugh Hewitt, a Nixon aide (and ex-Reagan aide as well) who today is a radio talk show host.
"It was July 1987. In a rare Washington visit to attend the funeral of Arthur Burns, a former Federal Reserve Board chairman who had also been the President's friend and economic adviser, word reached the Reagan White House political staff that Nixon would like to meet with us.
"Shuttled from the White House over to a nearby Washington hotel to avoid press attention, all of us in our early thirties, it would be a moment to remember. Scheduled for a half hour, the meeting went almost two. The topics ranged far and wide, with Nixon's complex personality, keen political understanding and mastery of world affairs all on display. Topics included current events (the Iran-Contra affair was then unfolding on the nation's television screens and Robert Bork had just been nominated to the Supreme Court) the upcoming 1988 presidential campaign, the 1960 election, and the U.S. relationship with the Soviet Union."
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