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The “Orientation Edition” of the Oregon Daily Emerald in 1967 proudly announced on the front page that Richard Nixon was going to be speaking to the Associated Students of University of Oregon on Oct. 6. The headline read “Nixon Accepts ASUO Invite For ‘Fall Talk,’” and that was about as precise as the description got.

ASUO had invited Nixon, and the Oregon Nixon for President Campaign confirmed that Nixon would be there.

Five months after this article ran, Nixon would announce his intention to run for presidency, and in a little over a year he would be sworn in as the 37th president of the United States. The article describes Nixon as the ‘former vice president,’ referring to his eight years as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Vice President.

This article doesn’t talk about Nixon very much because he hadn’t been heavily involved in politics for a while; he hadn’t been vice president for eight years. It’s like if John Edwards came to UO now: Nobody would really care.

But care or not, Nixon never actually spoke at UO. He cancelled on Oct. 2 after his mother died.

Another tidbit from this article: Lee Harvey Oswald’s mom spoke at UO.

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