TRIVIA: Who was the Best Man at the Eisenhower-Nixon White House wedding in 1968?

[underpants]

He was best friends with David Eisenhower at Phillips Exeter Academy.

He’s not mentioned on this page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy

[MrWowWow]

1. Why Did noxon See "Deep Throat" Five Times?

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He was desperately trying to figure out how to get it down pat. Remember, there were no DIY Youtube videos in those daze.

[ananda]

12. That was grafitti on Rice Library's bathroom door...

back in the early seventies when I was still a
post bac student in Houston.

Another:

Don't change Dicks in the middle of a screw,
re-elect Nixon in 72.

[rsdsharp]

13. Don Imus: If Nixon was the one in '68, he'll be a bigger one in '72!

How true.

[marble falls]

2. Trick question: Margret Truman.

[SocialDemocrat61]

3. Bob Woodward?

[underpants]

9. Nope. See post 4&7

[Solly Mack]

4. Gopher :)

[underpants]

7. 👍🏆 CORRECT

Fred Grandy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grandy

[Solly Mack]

11. Interview, long time ago, he was asked about it. Seemed odd until Gandy talked about his friendship.

[dsc]

18. I had no idea

and he is older than I thought, honestly. Hard to believe he was close to 30 when he started the Love Boat.

[marble falls]

15. Moderate one term Republican from Iowa. Makes good sense. He was magna cum laude from Harvard for his bachelors.

[Solly Mack]

16. Gopher was a busy little rodent.

[dsc]

19. 4 terms

[marble falls]

20. See? He made no headlines, and I lived in Iowa for two of those terms. He bowed out.

[Sneederbunk]

5. Further trivia.

Where did MLK first meet Nixon?

[underpants]

10. Googled. I had no idea.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon first met in March 1957 in Accra, Ghana, during the country's independence ceremonies. They were introduced by a mutual friend at a reception and had a conversation.

[Hekate]

6. Okay, I give up

[underpants]

8. See pot 4&7

[Donkees]

14. The wedding took place in Manhattan

[PCIntern]

17. I sat next to David and Julie at

the Guard House restaurant in Gladwyne, PA. He’s a revered professional at Penn and from what I hear, a genuinely nice man.