Back from Pismo Beach (between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.) attending my wife's grandma's funeral service. Virginia reached 98, once debating Richard Nixon as a sophomore at Whittier High School in, say, 1927? She claimed to have lost a close decision and nursed a grudge against the future president for many decades. Recently declassified White House documents indicate Virginia had, indeed, been robbed as Nixon paid another student to plant evidence with the principal that Virginia was insane. This effected the final tally, throwing the debate Nixon's way and convincing him that winning was more fun than high school.
In any case, God bless Virginia. She outlived Nixon by fifteen years and certainly got her money's worth from this life.
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Ah...Marty McFly's alma mater, too, as I recall. Why does none of this surprise me, really?
May Virginia and her nemesis both rest in peace.
Get out. Marty McFly went to Whittier?
As the late Carson would say, "That I did not know."
Nixon would later use similar reptilian tactics smearing his second major political opponent, the late Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, proclaiming in public that she was "pink right down do her underwear." Dick had a way with women. But Douglas returned the favor, nicknaming Nixon "Tricky Dick", a name that stuck.
They both appear in a picture of the entire debate team.
Virginia was, indeed, able to confirm the one thing that the Oliver Stone movie got right: "he was a potty mouth."
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