Very nice and friendly folks...Wichita is home to "Friends University", a four year college the Quaker group operates...

That would probably of made him a lot better politico if he stayed with the Friends.

He belonged to a Friends church, which was part of Friends United Meeting. That branch of Friends is more diverse by now but at the time Nixon attended, it was more akin to an evangelical or Baptist church than it was to what most people recognize as Friends.

He has been an inspiration and a guide for me (professionally and personally) as long as I’ve known him.

Quakers, UCC / Congregationalists and our local Episcopalians are really wonderful folks. They give me hope, and remind me that Christians vary just like any group of humans.

Don't know if that meant he gave up the tenets of Quakerism or not...he actions as President don't seem very Quakery though...

He was part of the Friends United Meeting. It is more diverse now (and includes meetings which would be recognizable by most as Quaker), but at the time was more akin to evangelical or Baptist congregations.

The FUM Friends Meeting I belonged to as a child actually shared a minister with the Baptist church my father grew up in. That Baptist church kicked my father out and later ostracized my grandfather when he came to share most of my father's beliefs.

So, yes, Richard Nixon was a Quaker - but not one of the two branches most people think of when they think of Quakers.

No talking, singing or chewing gum, the Friends meeting has begun.

I enjoyed them. Transportation issues and getting old stopped me from going...

For those not adverse to religion he also taught a great World's Religions class. We visited a Jewish Temple, a Christian Church, a Buddhist Temple, went to Japan House near the UN for a Japanese tea ceremony.
Read from the various texts.

We also went to Quaker meeting at his town, and played badminton after at his home.
Nice guy!

had always wanted to attend a Friends' meeting, but never got that opportunity. I'm old now... but maybe not to old to try to find one close to me again. I'm close to KC...

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582051932933#

I don't know that I know anyone there, but Iowa Yearly Meeting Conservative (the larger body of Friends to which it belongs) are good people.

For anyone else interested: https://www.fgcquaker.org/find-a-meeting/

LEYM and Iowa Yearly Meeting Conservative would be welcoming to all, including LGBTQI. Use caution with Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative - they oppose same gender marriage. Friends United Meeting is a mixed bag - some are unprogrammed; many have pastors; their record on LGBTQI people/marriage is spotty. Evangelical Friends International is all pastored and . . . evangelical (and least recognizable as Quaker).

I'm Pagan, and I've gotten "danger" feelings around here, so I haven't put it out there around here... and I miss being with like-minded people. Friendly, open, liberal, democratic type people. Now that I've gotten more years behind me than in front of me, I'd really like to get into groups discussing beliefs, etc. Yet, here I sit alone at the keyboard! (LOL) And with trump and his minions out there, I'm really losing any semblance of safety of anonymity I once felt online.

It happens whenever there human rights violations or wars going on and people are looking for a community in which they can not feel quite so helpless and alone.

How times have changed!
Back in the day Draft Counselors would counsel young men on being drafted into the Arned Forces.
Maybe which branch to chose, what to expect, even especially bc he was a Quaker; and this was during The Vietnam War - being a conscientious objector.

I believe that was the last year draft cards were issued...whew...