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Happy Birthday Richard Nixon.

Few American presidents have ever sparked the sort of visceral reaction in American citizens — and, indeed, around the world — as the 37th man to hold the office, Richard Milhous Nixon. His supporters, especially early in his career, loved him. His detractors — well, not to put too fine a point on it, they absolutely despised him. But love him or hate him, Nixon was a remarkably complex, contradictory man, often confounding allies and enemies alike with pronouncements and policy decisions that seemed, at first, to follow a logic known only to the notoriously private man from tiny Yorba Linda, California.

Pictured: Vice presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon eats alone in his private room in 1952.

“The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man,” he once said.

(see more — The Nixon You Never Knew)

Nixon.