Editor’s note: Much of the information for this article was sourced from Farrell’s 2017 book “Richard Nixon: The Life” and Stephen E. Ambrose’s 1987 book “Nixon, Vol. 1: The Education ...

Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in California. He had a tough start in life. His parents’ lemon farm failed and two of his brothers died in childhood. He didn’t let any of that hold him back.