… of Bart Starr. The hall-of-fame quarterback is 72.
… of Dick Enberg. The sportscaster is 71 (oh, my!).
… of Joan Baez. The singer is 65.
… of Jimmy Page. The Led Zeppelin rocker is 62.
… of Brenda Gayle Webb. Loretta Lynn’s little sister Crystal Gayle is 55.
… of Dave Matthews. He’s 39.
Richard Nixon was born on this date in 1913.
Many years ago NewMexiKen was contacted by the staff working with Richard Nixon on his memoirs, RN. I was asked to see if I could determine from among the Nixon papers in my custody the time of day he was born. As I remember it, my research was inconclusive. Someone else’s must have been helpful.
The memoirs begin:
I was born in a house my father built. My birth on the night of January 9, 1913, coincided with a record-breaking cold snap in our town of Yorba Linda, California.