Eastern Entrance: Nixon goes to Harvard

WI Nixon went to Harvard in '37? IOTL he was offered a scholarship but declined due to financial circumstances. This could mute his resentment of Easterners, possibly prevent Watergate, etc. Would he still become POTUS? He will meet JFK ten years earlier than OTL among other things...
 
If anything, getting into Harvard Law after graduating from Whittier College might just increase the resentment RMN felt for the 'eastern elite'. He's still a relatively poor guy (if hardly destitute), and now he's surrounded by many more affluent WASPs than he would be at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

But, strangely, he may never apply the qualilfier 'liberal' to the 'eastern elite' tag, as he would come into contact with a whole lot of raw anti-New Deal opinion from the wealthy students in the year of the court packing scandal. In OTL it was upper middle class liberals in the post-war DC public service like Acheson, Harriman, and most notoriously, Alger Hiss, that shaped his vision of just who his enemy was.

I don't know why postgrad Nixon would meet undergrad JFK, though.
 
I don't know why postgrad Nixon would meet undergrad JFK, though.
Using his charm and good looks, JFK steals Nixon's girl and when they meet in a bar Nixon gets angry and beats up Kennedy and then has to learn to calm himself down in order to win his girl back? Hmmm... Nixon: The College Years, coming to a theater near you.
 
Using his charm and good looks, JFK steals Nixon's girl and when they meet in a bar Nixon gets angry and beats up Kennedy and then has to learn to calm himself down in order to win his girl back? Hmmm... Nixon: The College Years, coming to a theater near you.

All kidding aside, there's little to no chance these two would meet socially, and they're not taking the same classes.

Harvard Nixon and Jack Kennedy might only cross paths if...

...Dick Nixon becomes involved in MA Democratic politics.
 
I hardly ever met any postgraduates when I was at uni, and I was at a college of the university where the student body was pretty well close-knit

The only guy I can think of was pothead Bill who had a room opposite mine in halls in the final year, plus a couple of guys who were in the same band as a mate . . .

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
This is my new TL, but Nixon will not be involved in MA politics. He will be involved in NY GOP politics. I will say no more...
 
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