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Richard Nixon’s Secret Visit With Coretta Scott King
‘IT WILL BE THERE’
Nixon came in part to avoid attending the funeral, but he also brought a check—later lost—for her children’s education, according to a family friend finally telling the story.
Eleanor Clift
Published
Jun. 23 2018
9:15PM EDT
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