NIXON, Richard. Autograph letter signed ("R. Nixon") to Al, 7 August [1944]. 1 page, 4to, United States Navy stationery, framed with a photo of Nixon and other Navy men in the Pacific .
NIXON, Richard. Autograph letter signed ("R. Nixon") to Al, 7 August [1944]. 1 page, 4to, United States Navy stationery, framed with a photo of Nixon and other Navy men in the Pacific . "THINGS ON THIS SIDE ARE PRETTY MESSED UP" NIXON REPORTS BACK ON THE HOMEFRONT TO HIS COMRADES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Writing to his buddies back on Green Island, Lieutenant Richard Nixon describes the homefront in 1944: "This note is intended for all the boys at Green. I'd figured that you were the best one to whom to address it, since you never get a break! (no Sydney trips, etc.!) I left Guadal on 10 July, flew to Pearl and went by ship from there to San Diego, arriving on 17 July. By good luck I was assigned to the N.A.S. [Naval Air Station] Alameda for duty, and will report there tomorrow. Things on this side are pretty messed up, as you have heard. There are lines for absolutely everything, movies, restaurants, hotels etc. However it's compensated for by being with the people we left behind. I hope all of you fellows with your time in soon get out of there. I saw Red Stickney...at San Diego, so they are still sending the Marines home. If you are assigned to the West Coast don't have families come out until you find a place to live. The housing shortage is terrible. People over here think the war will be over very soon. I hope they're right but will believe it when it happens..." In 1942, Nixon gave up a desk job with the Office of Emergency Management to join the Navy in the hopes of seeing action in the war. Though never in combat, he did serve overseas with the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command at Guadalcanal in the Solomons and later at Green Island. He was reputedly a tremendous poker player, and won thousands of dollars off his comrades, which he put towards his successful 1946 run for Congress. War date autograph letters from Nixon are scarce. Published in Hamilton, American Autographs , 2:571.
NIXON, Richard. Autograph letter signed ("R. Nixon") to Al, 7 August [1944]. 1 page, 4to, United States Navy stationery, framed with a photo of Nixon and other Navy men in the Pacific .
NIXON, Richard. Autograph letter signed ("R. Nixon") to Al, 7 August [1944]. 1 page, 4to, United States Navy stationery, framed with a photo of Nixon and other Navy men in the Pacific . "THINGS ON THIS SIDE ARE PRETTY MESSED UP" NIXON REPORTS BACK ON THE HOMEFRONT TO HIS COMRADES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Writing to his buddies back on Green Island, Lieutenant Richard Nixon describes the homefront in 1944: "This note is intended for all the boys at Green. I'd figured that you were the best one to whom to address it, since you never get a break! (no Sydney trips, etc.!) I left Guadal on 10 July, flew to Pearl and went by ship from there to San Diego, arriving on 17 July. By good luck I was assigned to the N.A.S. [Naval Air Station] Alameda for duty, and will report there tomorrow. Things on this side are pretty messed up, as you have heard. There are lines for absolutely everything, movies, restaurants, hotels etc. However it's compensated for by being with the people we left behind. I hope all of you fellows with your time in soon get out of there. I saw Red Stickney...at San Diego, so they are still sending the Marines home. If you are assigned to the West Coast don't have families come out until you find a place to live. The housing shortage is terrible. People over here think the war will be over very soon. I hope they're right but will believe it when it happens..." In 1942, Nixon gave up a desk job with the Office of Emergency Management to join the Navy in the hopes of seeing action in the war. Though never in combat, he did serve overseas with the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command at Guadalcanal in the Solomons and later at Green Island. He was reputedly a tremendous poker player, and won thousands of dollars off his comrades, which he put towards his successful 1946 run for Congress. War date autograph letters from Nixon are scarce. Published in Hamilton, American Autographs , 2:571.
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