Still, from his books, I am convinced Nixon was not a coarse-grained man. Perhaps he was even delicate. Hannah Nixon used to joke that she had wanted a daughter. And she said about Nixon, her famous son, long after he had boarded the train and made something of himself in the world, He was no child prodigy. But Hannah also remembered the way young Nixon needed her, as none of her other children did: As a schoolboy, he used to like to have me sit with him when he studied.

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)