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TIL that President Nixon’s daughter married President Eisenhower’s grandson.

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N7wpN TIL Former Governor of Colorado, Ralph L. Carr, was one of the only politicians who publicly opposed Japanese Internment at the time and his position on the issue destroyed his political career.
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