President Funds Campaign With Gambling Money

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I never liked Richard Nixon much. Not his looks or his actions. Come to find out I was right aobut him. But, I was just reading a bit of trivia about him that has opened another door to his psyche for me. I didn't know he was a gambler. He once turned down dinner with Charles Linbergh because he preferred going to a poker game. He ran a game called "the wheel of fortune when he was a teenager and set up his own casino bar when he was in the World War II. With this money he partially funded his presidential campaign. Are there things about historical characters that you know that really surprised you? Bad or good? Image courtesy of Flickr. com Commons