Oh, also, Nixon after the war spent a lot of time in California again. His mother had a mansion in San Francisco and I believe it was in either the San Francisco mansion or the Montecito villa that his sister committed suicide.
ohh, good to know! thank you /adding it (and oh man, i don't actually know too much about nixon's family and didn't know that about his sister, that's terrible;; )
No problem. Nixon's mother was Doris Ryer of the Ryers of San Francisco; they owned an agricultural empire in the California central valley, including Ryer Island in the Sacramento Delta. She died of cancer sometime soon after the war. His younger sister Blanche shot herself while Nix and his second wife Julia (the lady from Aldbourne) were in the house. I don't think she died immediately. Nix's father Stanhope went on trial for assault when he was in college (I forget if it was Princeton or Yale) for beating a man with a piece of wood or an oar or something, but somehow was either acquitted or sentenced to time served. He was kind of unbalanced and a heavy drinker
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i linked this comment up by nixon's name in the post, it's fascinating info to know o: (and a bit of it, quite sad, really) man, they were a bit of of a troubled family weren't they?
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thanks for the info!
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