Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in California. He had a tough start in life. His parents’ lemon farm failed and two of his brothers died in childhood. He didn’t let any of that hold him back.

Richard M. Nixon lost the election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy by a small margin of 112,000 popular votes. When Nixon ran again in 1968, he cast himself as representing a “Great Silent Majority,” a ...