... sitting on their fat butts- (Nixon). Whittier College did not have the usual fraternities or sororities, but it did have the Franklins, a snobbish and high brow society, whose members wore black ties and dinner jackets to school functions, and which included the town's richer families. With a group of other students Nixon set out to break the Franklins social monopoly by organizing ... - proved effective once again when he used it in his next election in 1950, this time running for the Senator of California against the liberal Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, a famous actress and fri...

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