Long before he became President of the United States — and then became the first and only president ever to resign from the office — Richard Nixon learned how to play poker. By doing so he perhaps confirmed a position taken by one of his professors back at Whittier College, Albert Upton, who was once said to have suggested "a man who can't hold a hand at a first-class poker table is unfit to be President of the United States."
Here are a few lesser known anecdotes concerning the poker playing of "Tricky Dick.