Word: gulched
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Teapot Dome scandal of 1924 fixed Nixon's determination-he was eleven at the time -to become a "lawyer who can't be bought" (his mother wanted him to become a missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped found...