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TIL on November 23, 1963, former Vice President Richard Nixon wrote a condolence letter to Jackie Kennedy. On January 21, 1964, Mrs. Kennedy sent a thank you note to Nixon, encouraging him to run for the presidency again, as he had lost to Kennedy in 1960.

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