Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I think of Halloween, my thoughts also turn to our late great president, Richard Milhous Nixon. For three straight years, from when I was eight until I was eleven, my trick-or-treating itinerary had Nixon's rambling ranch home as its high point. For all the children of Saddle River, New Jersey, the Nixon residence was a Halloween must...
...house was surrounded by trees, dense shrubbery and a high wall. The driveway was normally blocked by a heavy gate. But on Halloween, the gate was swung wide open, offering trick-or-treaters (and their curious parents) an invitation to enter...
Next to the gate was a small wooden guardhouse. I was told that this was where Nixon's Secret Service agents were stationed. When I went trick-or-treating at the Nixons, I never saw anyone inside the guardhouse. No Secret Service agents frisked me for weapons concealed in my costume...
There was an elaborate ritual to trick-or-treating at Tricky Dick's. You would walk up the curving driveway to the doorstep...
Several years after I retired my plastic pumpkin candy carrier, Nixon moved away. He left Saddle River and took up residence in a townhouse in nearby Park Ridge. The townhouse was much easier to maintain than the sprawling Nixon estate. Since his departure, Saddle River and its trick-or-treating scene have never been the same...