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Nixon's smallest donation was $12, given on three occasions to the American Legion Auxiliary, once in 1970 and twice in 1971; his largest was $4,500 to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1970. Many of the organizations that benefited from a Nixon gift were religious. Besides the Graham donation and a $1,000 donation to the Baptist Community Hospital in 1970, Nixon gave $1,000 to his home-town East Whittier Friends Church...
...himself from the days when he watched pro football in San Francisco, where he grew up. While a teenager, he worked as a part-time Associated Press sports reporter and diagrammed plays for his high school team. Now Atlanta fans unfurl banners proclaiming themselves LEE'S LEGION. And, quite unexpectedly, they may find that their general has a chance to do battle in the Super Bowl...
...three of them were All Americans. Both teams were ranked in the nation's top 10, the game was sold out months in advance, and scalpers were getting about $75 for a single ticket. So I felt duly honored when my father invited me to accompany him to Legion Field for the occasion...
...rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...
...Legion Field was like the bus--only more so. Saturday night's television version of the crows was just as I remembered it. There were banners spanning whole rows of the bleachers, rolls of toilet paper sailing up into the sky and down, glamourous blond cheerleaders leaping high into the air, and inebriated fans everywhere. A full minute before each of Saturday night's kickoffs, the Alabama rooters began a deafening ROLLLLLLLL TIDE, equalled only by the Auburn fans' competing WAAAAAAAR EAGLE. The thunderous roar of that cheer didn't reproduce well over CBS, but I remembered it well...