>heh. hadn't thought of that -- not consciously. I never think of him as
>Dick. I wasn't politically aware enough to have heard much reference to him
>at the time. He's always Richard Nixon to me, and it's a little jolting to
>be reminded that people think of him as tricky dick.
He wasn't publicly known as Richard to a lot of folks, but as Dick. Think bout how it sounds: Dick Nixon. He could be a hard-boiled detective, or a commie-fighter like Joe (not Joseph) McCarthy.
(I'm trying to recall where I first saw the slogan, "Dick Nixon! Before he dicks you!")