Tricky Dick’s Political Career Was Launched With Covert Help From The L.A. Times

Nixon’s anxiety about entering politics

Disappeared and he became calmer

Realizing he had a loyal confederate in

A Times staffer named Kyle Palmer.

Better still, the one other person who was

His de facto Times handler

Was even higher up the paper’s food chain:

Publisher Norman Chandler.

But pendulums shift & Nixon later would

See that things had gone bad

For him when he had become the target of

Times cartoonist Paul Conrad.

His initial Times benefactors made sure that

Nixon for a while would stick around.

His later Times detractor made a career out

Of having this president to kick around.

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