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...thought religion was a legitimate issue in a political campaign. I answered: "A man's religion cannot be separated from his person; therefore where religion involves political decision it becomes a legitimate issue. For example, the people have a right to know the views of a Quaker on pacifism, or a Christian Scientist's view on medical aid, or a Catholic's view on the secular influences of the Vatican...
...will of God." A President's religion, continues the editorial, is very much an issue, since it will guide his actions and form his convictions. But, says the Century, the issue is weakened in the 1960 campaign because neither candidate has strong religious ties: "Mr. Nixon is a Quaker who works at Quakerism so little that he could be a naval officer in World War II. Mr. Kennedy is a Catholic who has repudiated so many of the official positions of his church that he has been attacked repeatedly in the Catholic press...
Leis & Poi. Next came Nixon's own home territory, Los Angeles. Welcomed at the airport by 5,000 cheering people and one baby elephant, Nixon led a motorcade to his alma mater, Quaker-run Whittier College, found the football field jammed with 15,000 greeters. Next morning, on a chartered prop plane (to save the G.O.P. National Committee $11,000 more than a jet charter would have cost), Dick and Pat hurried on to Hawaii, spent two days there island hopping. Nixon campaigned as if he expected Hawaii's three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November...
Richard Milhous Nixon, 47, the presidential choice, is the second of five sons* of Francis Nixon, an unsuccessful Southern California citrus farmer, and his wife Hannah, a pious Quaker. When Frank Nixon's lemon grove failed, he moved his family to Quaker-led Whittier, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and opened a small grocery. Dick spent his after school hours and his summers helping out in the store and with the chores in his meager home. "Richard always pulled the shades down when he washed the dishes," his mother recalls, "so that people wouldn...
After Librarian Mary Knowles was convicted of contempt of Congress in 1957 for clamming up about her supposed Red ties before a Senate subcommittee, the Quaker-operated William Jeanes Memorial Library in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. not only ignored a community outcry for her scalp but also gave her a raise. The library got a $5,000 award from the Fund for the Republic. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned Librarian Knowles's conviction, thus spared her a four-month jail stretch and $500 fine...