hanna nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. maybe it's recreational reading. he read in addition to "the l.a. times" as a young man, "good housekeeping" and "the saturday evening post" both of which may have praised 1920s america, hoover's america, to some degree. some of the members of his committee of 100 who helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns, frank jorgenson, he said i didn't trust fdr. i distrusted him. a lot of the stuff he had been soft on communism. i think he was befuddled a lot of time and fooled by stalin. john francis nyland he was a big fund-raiser in the san francisco bay area for richard nixon in many of the elections between 1952 and 1968. he told his own employer william randolph hearst that governor fdr who he had met in late 1932 or early 1933 did not understand the fundamentals of the national economy or the u.s. stock market, quote, when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that all industry consisted of stock market operations, end quote. earl c. adams, a san marino lawyer, he said, quot

and nixon, you read in one of the displays here about how he listened to his mother, hanna, console his brother at 7 just hours before he finally passed. and you would think that those formative things might have the effect of, you know, i'm not saying nationalize health care so these things don't happen, but it was them's the breaks? or how did they take these things in and keep them from imbuing their world view as something where wow, this is the place where society should step in to save us all. instead, it's boot straps world and that's just the way it is. i'm not sure which person would reflect on that, but thank you for answering my question. >> anybody? >> you know, both you and professor kimball are absolutely right in the sense that looking at these people from a psychological value is good serious stuff. i mean, i really think it should be done. the problem is is so much of the basis of how people do this is not the quantity but how they want the story to come out. the fly leaf of brody's book says, i am going to prove to you how nixon lied from the time he was in the womb un