Kennedy’s father had quietly dropped off a $1,000 check for Nixon’s Senate campaign, and Kennedy invited Pat and Richard Nixon to his wedding with Jacqueline Bouvier. Secret Service members ...

For 22 years, Richard Nixon had campaigned relentlessly ... he faced the horror of his world coming apart, of the father he loved being turned into a helpless mouse,” said Fritz Kraemer ...

The idea of Father’s Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909.