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Ms. Toad

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13. Different kind of Quaker.

Reply to Martin68 (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 3, 2026, 11:29 PM

Jul 3

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.

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