Nixon was never very Quaker-y despite his renowned adoration of his Quaker mother. Having a Quaker parent does not, I don't think, really equal Quaker background, considering that he was not raised to be even remotely Quaker. His father was non-practising Protestant I believe, which is mugh more "Nixon's background".
It's been along time since the Quaker mainstream was anti-drink or anti-tobacco (although the latter on the multinational blah blah etc etc front, might be somewhat negative). Granted I only know Australian, English, and American Quakers, and mainly the first, but in general they're not less likely to drink or, say, play music, than anyone else.
I can't recall which one was which, it's been years now, but there was a marked distinction between, for example, Fox and Penn as early Quakers in their attitude to singing, dancing, and peasures of the flesh.
Catherine
Quoting andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>:
>
> Some Quakers,
> just like some non-Quakers, tend to be oppressive people, but they can
> be stood up to with a little courage. After all, what can oppressive
> Quakes do to you -- beat you up some night in a dark alley? In practice,
> Quakers over the centuries have developed various ways of dealing with
> this sort of "oppression" in suitably decorous, "Friendly" ways. Never
> you fear.
> * * **
>
> Nixon was from a Quaker background . . . .
>
> In his Nightmares of Eminent Persons (a marvelous work), Bertarnd Russell
> creates the following nightmare for Stalin. He has lost WWIII, and has been
> placed by the victorious allies in the custody of burly Quakers who deny him
> vodka and tobacco,a nd reprive him mildly for his volcanic rants. "Now, now,
> Mr. Stalin, thretening to have people shot is not very nice."
>
> jks
>
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