he was dido, and he had to kiss aeneas. he never kissed anybody before and he lumbers across the stage to kiss her and the high school students erupted in laughter, derision, mocking him. and, it was an early case of nixon having to deal with real adversity. he was humiliated. the girl hated him for it. and yet, it interested me. afterwards, he tries to make up with the girl -- who becomes his girlfriend -- and he learns to deal with diversity and to be mocked and jeered, but come back and show people. brian: his first girlfriend, i don't know -- ola florence welch. [chuckling] where did you find this stuff about her? evan: there are hundreds of oral histories about his high school and college years at whittier college and at cal state fullerton. i mean, literally hundreds. when he became president, they went around and interviewed old friends. ola gave a lot of interviews and she was quite touching about nixon. she thought he was kind of an odd duck. she found him to be impressive and not too normal for a high school kid.