John Kasich’s father was a postman in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, just outside Pittsburgh. The son had remarkable ambition. When he was a freshman at Ohio State, he arranged a meeting with the college president and, when he discovered that the man had an upcoming audience in the Oval Office, asked him to carry a letter to Nixon. Soon, Kasich himself had a meeting with Nixon. This was December, 1970, around the time that Nixon was telling Bob Haldeman how badly he wanted the squares from Ohio State to destroy the hippies from Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Kasich must have seemed like his kind of square; the President might even have recognized a version of himself. The young man was soon making more connections. He became the youngest person ever elected to the Ohio State Senate; he was seated in Congress before his tenth college reunion. ...
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