Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
From In The Arena (1990)
1990s
“In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.”
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
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