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Ms. Toad

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12. He never went to meetings.

Reply to Jacson6 (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 3, 2026, 11:23 PM

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He belonged to a Friends church, which was part of Friends United Meeting. That branch of Friends is more diverse by now but at the time Nixon attended, it was more akin to an evangelical or Baptist church than it was to what most people recognize as Friends.

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