The 37th President of the United States and Whittier College's most famous alumnus Richard M. Nixon '34, was recently featured in Los Angeles Magazine. Arguably one of the most controversial U.S. leaders of the 20th century, his life centered mostly in Southern California and is chronicled in a map shared by the Los Angeles Public Library. From a small farmhouse in Yorba Linda, Nixon's life included stops at Whittier High School and Whittier College, law school in North Carolina, returning to California to serve as a congressman and senator, to finally opening doors to China as President of the United States, this new pictorial captures his entire life and career on one sheet, and it places Whittier at the center of the action.
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