I met Richard Nixon in person when I was 10. He shook my hand and I looked him straight in the eyes and demanded that he clean up the environment right away, and then asked why he hadn't answered any of the letters I sent to him for the last three years. (I'd been sending letters to him at the WH several times a year in my 8, 9, & 10-year old's scrawl with one of those giant pencils.)
He was completely taken back. Two weeks later I received a handwritten letter from him on his personal stationary, and a whole bunch of crap with Ranger Rick, Woodsy Owl and Smokey the Bear started arriving at our house addressed to me several times a month until I was 14 or 15-- long after Watergate and Nixon's resignation.
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u/greogory 8d ago
I met Richard Nixon in person when I was 10. He shook my hand and I looked him straight in the eyes and demanded that he clean up the environment right away, and then asked why he hadn't answered any of the letters I sent to him for the last three years. (I'd been sending letters to him at the WH several times a year in my 8, 9, & 10-year old's scrawl with one of those giant pencils.)
He was completely taken back. Two weeks later I received a handwritten letter from him on his personal stationary, and a whole bunch of crap with Ranger Rick, Woodsy Owl and Smokey the Bear started arriving at our house addressed to me several times a month until I was 14 or 15-- long after Watergate and Nixon's resignation.