The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, October 28, 1968

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New officers elected INDIANAPOLIS (U P I) — Charles T. Reece, Warsaw, was elected Saturday president of the Indiana State Teachers Association at a meeting of the ETA Representative Assembly. Reece is a social studies teacher at Warsaw Junior High School. The 900-delegate assembly the 50,000-member ETA also named Miss Aleene Pfaffinger vice president. She is a first grade teacher in the Jefferson-ville-Utica School Corp. District officers elected ineluded: Margene Schuck, Griffifth; Arthur J. Rhoads, Michigan City; Bill Scott, South Bend; James Leichty, Lakeland; James Herschinger, Lafayette; Joan Holman, Kokomo; Everett Smith, Maconaquah; Mary Jane Downing, Marion; Gerald Goen, Richmond; James Monroe, Noblesville; Richard Dlough, Indianapolis; Dr. Ernest Horn, Bloomington; June Uphaus, Columbus; Lorel Coleman, Petersburg, and Erwin Eisert, Salem.

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For the Nixons: Make believe come true

This is another in a series of staffproduced articles delving into the background and personal life of Richard M. Nixon and his family

Richard Nixon met Thelma Ryan, the woman he was later to marry, at little theatre tryouts in Whittier, Cal., in 1938. He was a promising young attorney and she was a teacher of commercial high school subjects. Pat Ryan had come to Whittier in 1937, the year she graduated from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. It was the same year Richard Nixon had received his degree from law school. Both were honor students.

She had taken her degree in merchandising, but in 1937 the pay in that field did not come up to the money to be made in the teaching profession. Teachers at that time were earning $190 a month-‘a fabulous salary in those days,’ as Mrs. Nixon recalls it. She had had four years of college, and in order to teach in California at that time, a five-year period of college attendance was required. Because of her supplementary experience in the business world, however, she was granted a special certificate, and allowed to teach business classes. She says now that she feels destiny had a hand in getting her to Whittier in her first teaching post.

LIGHTER MOMENT. Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon finds time for a hearty laugh at a stop along the campaign trail.

Mrs. Nixon had been born in Ely, Nevada, the daughter of a miner who had left the state when she was tiny to purchase a 10-1/2-acre ranch in Artesia, Cal., 18 miles from Los Angeles. The ranch was used for truck farming, and there was much to be done. Pat worked hard, along-

side her brothers in the field, and remembers it now with warmth. 'I loved to be out of do n’-..’ she says. ‘We picked potatoes, we picked tomatoes, we picked peppers and cauliflower. When I was real tiny I just tagged along. But when I got older, I was able :o do more. I drove the team of horses and things like that. ‘We didn’t have a trad or then. You had to use the horses for a number of thins. For instances, when you wen! down rows of cauliflowers you had -o have a special cart vith high wheels so that you didn’t injure the cauliflower heads. I remember we used to take our produo- over to ship, like the tomatoes were shipped, and we would ride up on top of the wagon. Things like that were the fun we had.’ Pat Nixon’s memories of those days of hard work are pleasant ones. Things were not easy for her, but her attitude was a healthy one. As was her husband in his own childhood, Pat Ryan was taught the value of work, honest and diligence School was a mile away, and she walked, as did the rest of her friends, who were in more or loss the same situation. Their fun was connected with their farm and the work done on it, for the most part. Pleasures were simple, and shared. When she was 12 years old. Pat’s mother died, and she was in charge of running the householi. Five years later, during her final year of high school, her father died. For a year after her father’s death, Pat worked inaloca' bank.

TIGERS FOR NIXON--Presidential candidate Richard Nixon found Detroit Tigers' Jim Northrop, left, and Al Kaline on the platform

when Nixon made his first campaign stop in Michigan. Nixon’s schedule carried him to Saginaw, Battle Creek and Grand Rapids.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

Soon the northeasters will whistle across Point Gammon and the big trees will be stripped of leaves to whirl in bowls of dry flakes at Hyannis Port. The green weed will hem the long skirt of the sea and the Kennedys will begin to pack for Palm Beach. Quietly, the old Ambassador and Rose mark their fifty-fourth wedling anniversary and read a few :ards of remembrance. The iron will of Joe is imprisoned in the aluminum bars of a wheel chair. The thoughts, the words, form in the mind but die on the tongue. “Don’t ever let me get like that!” President John F. Kennedy said on a summer afternoon at Hyannis Port. He said it to his wife. The President’s rage was lack of accommodation, on his part, for the helplessness of the lead elephant. Few feel compassion or under, standing of Rose. She sheds no tears; her head remains up, like a small bird weathering a big storm. It is possible - - without

becoming maudlin - - that she is a living saint. Her God, her Church, her childlike faith, take precedence over all else. No matter how heavy the repeated blows of adversity, she murmurs; “Thy will be Done” and closes the memory book. The day the President died in Dalis, they told Rose, but not the Ambassador. The sun was pale and cold and the wind raw. She donned a windbreaker and went out alone to walk the edge of the beach, a small figure of a woqjan in a woolen skirt, hands in pockets, wisps of hair spiraling around her head. She asked no consolation, no son or daughter to hold the small pretty face at a moment when tears are therapeutic. She walked alone. Rose made her personal peace in twenty minutes and returned to the compound to discuss disengaging the Ambassador’s television set so that he could not know until a doctor arrived from Boston.

At the funeral, Richard Cardinal Cushing told me that he preceded the casket into St. Matthew Pro-Cathedral and was astonished to find, among all the splendid men and women of the world, that Rose was among the standees in the back. He halted the procession, and she begged him, in a whisper, not to do it. “Your Eminence,” she said. “I’m saying my rosary.” He would have none of it. “You are this boy’s mother! ” the great churchman said, and escorted her up the aisle. She looked at the gleaming, light-struck casket, and began to think of that man, not as her baby anymore, but as a President of the United States. She was certain that she would meet him again, on a distant shore. Sometimes, at the big baroque house at the north end of Palm Beach, she shattered friends by remarking: “I mean to speak to the President about that when I see him.” Later, word came from Los Angeles that Bobby, the bantam battler, was gone too. The life of Rose became flooded with masses and holy communions for the repose of the souls of her babies; for the serenity of mind Continued on page 5

Then she went east to work in a hospi'.U whi'3 sh • lived with relatives. She saved enough money to put into college expenses, and entered the University of Southern California. After classes, on weekends and vacations, she worked in a fashionable women’s store in order to make her way. Later, she found that a very lucrative form of employment was in the movie industry. It was as a bit player that she made as much as $25 for walk-on parts. ‘I was a good student, so I was able to miss classes and do this extra work in the movies,’ Mrs. Nixon recalled later. ‘I made quite a lot of extra money that way...’ While it afforded her a good income, the movies never interested her as a career. ‘I never thought of movies as a career because it seemed so very boring,’ she said once. ‘It was those retakes and retakes and you would see those stars going over and over and over about three words until you almost went mad. I did the extra bit playing only for the money. But I did all sorts of interesting things to earn a little extra money then, you know, secretarial work and other things because I was earning my way through school.’ And so she was graduated from college and turned from merchandising, her chosen career, to teaching. She said later that one of the reasons she accepted the teaching job in Whittier was because ‘it would be a lot of fun and I recieved all this money, and I had great visions of those free summers when I could do what I wanted to. I really dreamed about those summer months.’ She said once, ‘The only reason I accepted the teaching job was destiny. Through it I met Dick in his own home town.’ In addition to her duties as a teacher of commercial subjects, Mrs. Nixon was faculty advisor for the Pep Committee, coached the cheerleaders, directed school plays and became a full-fledged and active member of the Whittier community. Pat got into the swing of things socially, and found her schedule full. ‘I was a new teacher in Whittier,’ she later said, ‘and they encouraged teachers to take part in the local events in town, including the little theater which was quite thriving at the time. I wasn’t too anxious, but this friend of mine decided that she would go down to try out for a part, so I went with her. In the meantime, she had told Dick that this ‘glamorous’ new school teacher was going to be in the play.’ And that’s how they met. Nixon proposed to his wife the night they were introduced for the first time, but as she said later, ‘I thought he was nuts or something. I guess I just looked at him. I couldn’t imagine anyone ever saying anything like that so suddenly.’ She admits that she admired the young lawyer from the beginning, but adds that she was not interested in settling down. After those little theatre tryouts, Nixon stopped dating. Pat went on having a good time. They were part of a group of young people who enjoyed doing active things. Nixon learned to dance, and to ice skate. They were all on budgets, so entertainment was simple. ‘In those days we were all very young,’ she recalls, ‘and we had to do home entertainment rather than go out and spend money. We used to put on funny shows. It was all good, clean fun, and we had loads of laughs.’ She also recalls that there was no talk of politics at that time. He was doing well as a lawyer,’ she later said, ‘he was well liked by everybody. He was always president of some group like the 20-30 Club and this, that, and the other thing, so I knew that he would be successful in whatever

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PAT NIXON IN A CANDID MOMENT —This study of Mrs. Richard M. Nixon was taken as she engaged in animated conversation during a brunch held for women at the Republican National Convention in Miami.

he undertook.’ They were engaged in the spring of 1940, two years after they met. Her ring was presented to her in a May Day basket, and they were married in June 21 of that year. The bride recalled that it was a fine wedding. After the ceremony they got in the car and drove in the general direction of Mexico City, without any definite plans. They didn’t have any special place in mind... they just went. It is one of the banes of public life that such a simple pleasure as this is no longer theirs. Mrs. Nixon says that because of television they are not able to go anywhere without being recognized. But she adds, ‘it gives you a good feeling,—it always does with us—to have people be so friendly, so kind, to give us a cheery wave...but then too, it means no more private automobile trips.’ Their first apartment was over a garage. Pat continued to teach, and they became opera fans. Nixon planned sooner or later to get into a big city law practice. He kept looking the field over. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Nixon was determined to do something about it, but he was a Quaker, and had to go slowly. In 1942, he went to Washington and applied for a job in the OPA. He wanted to get into the war effort. Nixon, in speaking of his OPA experience, later said, ‘I...became greatly disillusioned about bureaucracy and about what the government could do because I saw the terrible paper w’ork that people had to go through. I also say the mediocrity of so many civil servants. And for the first time when I was in OPA I also saw that there are people in government who were not satisfied merely with interpreting the regulations, enforcing the law that Congress passes, but who ac. tually had a passion to get busi-

ness and used their government jobs to that end. These were of course some of the remnants of the old, violent New Deal crowd. They set me to thinking a lot on that point.” His role as a minor government beaureaucrat shattered many ofhis previous illusions and had its effect on his later political philosophy. This same OPA was later to become the butt of many of his attacks on the Democratic administration. Six months later, Nixon joined the Navy as a lieutenant, junior grade. As a lawyer, he was entitled to a direct commission. He was promoted to a full lieutenant a year later. In October, 1945, he becamea’ieutenant commander and in June, 1953--six months after he had taken office as Vice President of the United States--he was raised to full commander in the Naval Reserve. Those who knew him in his Navy days recall that young Nixon was ‘The one guy who knew wiiere he was going.’ He had entered law and became successful. He planned to return to law and be even better. He had not yet considered the field of politics.

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