#mckeesport

[aryburn-trains]

The Port Authority of Allegheny County's PATrain makes a station stop at McKeesport, PA. August 21, 1987

[unteriors]

Allen Way, McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

[grusik]

McKeesport, Pennsylvania Canon EOS 40D Canon EF-S 18mm-55mm f/ f/3.5-5.6 IS www.fluidr.com/photos/elzopilote el zopilote's most interesting photos on Flickriver by el zopilote

[pastpittsburgh]

The Pittsburg Press; November 17, 1892.

[drunkencowpgh]

Drunken Cow Bar & Grill

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[pittsburghbeautiful]

East McKeesport

East McKeesport East McKeesport, a small borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, boasts a rich heritage tracing back to the pioneering McKee family. Situated on a scenic plateau among the Turtle Creek, Monongahela, and Youghiogheny Valleys, it presents an altitude that offers unique perspectives on the region. With its incorporation dating back to December 1895, East McKeesport, PA,…

[liberty1776]

My future wife with her prom date, Her High School, Mckeesport and mine, Penn Hills, were sports rivals. She graduated 8 years after I did, so I never faced this big guy on the football field. Glad I didn't have to fight him for her hand in marriage. She was a petite 5 feet 3 inches tall. He looks a lest 6 foot 6 inches. I was 5 foot nine back then.

[travsd]

On Donna Jean Young and "Vaudeville"

Today we treat of two separate but very much related topics of roughly equal obscurity. I can’t recall which one I learned about first, but we start with comedienne Donna Jean Young (1936-2010) because May 29 was her birthday. And this will be one of those happy occasions where Travalanche is your best, very nearly ONLY source of centralized info. As the 1969 record album cover above more than…

[porcelainapparition]

East McKeesport, Pennsylvania

built in 1904

[aryburn-trains]

Sixth Street Crossing

Pittsburgh commuter to Versailles 4 days before this line was relocated to eliminate 23 grade crossings McKeesport, PA May 1, 1970

[unteriors]

Broadway Street, East McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

[grusik]

McKeesport, Pennsylvania Canon EOS 40D Canon EF-S 18mm-55mm f/ f/3.5-5.6 IS www.fluidr.com/photos/elzopilote el zopilote's most interesting photos on Flickriver by el zopilote

[pastpittsburgh]

The Pittsburg Press; November 17, 1892.

[janeya]

Have you seen McKeesport Little Theatre’s Jane? I believe the theatre has a facebook account

yes i have!

[dispelzine]

Walls / Walnut Street, McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

[flotuslover53]

Hey.. I'm that quora guy from earlier, I was scrolling for a little while before i found stuff that I think will pique your interestxdd

What did JFK think of Richard Nixon?

Congressmen John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1947.

JFK is age 29 (one month shy of 30). Nixon is age 34.

JFK liked and admired Nixon. Their friendship continued throughout JFK’s life.

“On New Year's Eve 1959, two days before he announced his candidacy for the presidency, Kennedy made an admission to his neighbor, journalist Charles Bartlett, that was so startling Bartlett wrote it down the following morning: "Jack says if the Democrats don't nominate him, he's going to vote for Nixon."

“Few men had observed Nixon's gifts - his ambition, his perseverance and his intellect - from the intimate vantage point afforded Kennedy. In early 1947, a civic group in the steel town of McKeesport, Pa., asked their congressman, Frank Buchanan, to invite the two congressional freshmen with the brightest futures to come debate the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Buchanan picked Kennedy and Nixon, both just elected after naval service in the Pacific.”

“On April 21, 1947, the first Kennedy-Nixon debate was held in the ballroom of the Penn McKeesport Hotel, with Kennedy getting the more sympathetic proposition. Some of the blue-collar steelers booed Nixon's warnings about encroaching union power.”

“Boarding the overnight Capitol Limited train back to D.C., the 29-year-old Kennedy and the 34-year-old Nixon drew straws for the lower berth. Nixon won, but the bed went largely unused as the awkward grocer's son found an unexpected common denominator in the handsome playboy heir to one of America's great fortunes.”

"We sat up late talking," Nixon recalled. "Neither of us was a backslapper, and we were both uncomfortable with boisterous displays of superficial camaraderie. He was shy, and that sometimes made him appear aloof. But it was shyness born of an instinct that guarded privacy and concealed emotions. I understood these qualities because I shared them."

“In 1950, Nixon planned his run for the Senate against Hollywood actress-turned-Democratic Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, longtime mistress of Texan Lyndon Johnson. During that campaign, Douglas branded Nixon with an epithet that would stick for life: Tricky Dick.”

“In the infamously mean-spirited race, Nixon got a psychological and a financial windfall from an unexpected source.”

“Kennedy dropped into Nixon's office and handed an envelope to administrative assistant Bill Arnold. "This man brought a personal check for $1,000," Arnold would recall. "He explained that the check should be used in Nixon's campaign for senator." Kennedy's contribution amounted to approximately one-third of the average American's annual income.”

“After Kennedy's 1952 election to the Senate, Nixon offered a different sort of help. The membership chairman of the exclusive, all-male Burning Tree golf club in Maryland got a letter from the new vice president: "I have known Senator Kennedy for a number of years as a personal friend and I feel he would make an excellent addition to the membership."

“In the Senate Office Building next to the Capitol, Kennedy was given Room 362. Nixon was right across the hall in Room 361. For eight years, there would be an easy camaraderie not just between Kennedy and Nixon but also between their secretaries. Kennedy's assistant Evelyn Lincoln would recall, "Rose Mary Woods and I were very friendly."

“In the summer of 1963, he took his wife and two daughters on a six-week overseas vacation. In a hotel room in Rome, Nixon picked up the ringing phone and heard the operator say that the president was calling. Five days after making his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, an ebullient Kennedy was in town.”

"Sounding happy and relaxed, he said that he heard we were in Rome and just wanted to say hello," Nixon said.”

“It was the last time Nixon and Kennedy spoke.”

Is it true? Thats beyond me XD But it's cool nonetheless.

Wow thank u for this!! I can confirm at least most of these are true.

The story about them sharing a bunk on the train after their first debate is from this article which I would recommend to everyone who is interested in the Kennedy/Nixon dynamic. They really had the most perfect meet-cute!!

It's also true that JFK gave Nixon $1,000 for his campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas, as he says in this interview. The money came from JFK's father, but as Nixon says, he wouldn't have received the check unless JFK also supported him. (This video has some other very cute anecdotes in it, I've rewatched it so many times hehe)

Nixon and Kennedy did have offices directly across from each other, and as my source I'll just show this adorable cartoon Nixon gave to JFK:

I'm also extremely sure that the Rome story is true, and I'm also sure I've seen it mentioned in multiple sources, but for some reason the only source coming to mind right now is this fictionalised horror story about Nixon I read a few months ago where the phone call between them was included in one scene. (I'll look for a better source on this lol)

I love all these little anecdotes about the JFK/Nixon friendship, even though they may not have been the closest of friends it's fascinating to me that they had this longstanding relationship that lasted over a century and spanned just about the entire time that the two men were involved in politics. Truly they were drawn together by fate so many times!!