Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon '80s tale FILE - In this Nov. 17, 1973 file photo, President Richard Nixon speaks near Orlando, Fla. to the Associated Press Managing Editors annual meeting. Nixon told the APME "I am not a crook." There were two men in 1980s Manhattan who craved validation one a past president, one a future president. Thats how a thirty-something Donald Trump and a seventy-ish Richard Nixon struck up a decade-long correspondence in the 1980s that meandered from football and real estate to Vietnam and media strategy. Their letters are being revealed for the first time in an exhibit that opens Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. (AP Photo)
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at the Fayetteville Regional Airport in Fayetteville, N.C. There were two men in 1980s Manhattan who craved validation one a past president, one a future president. Thats how a thirty-something Donald Trump and a seventy-ish Richard Nixon struck up a decade-long correspondence in the 1980s that meandered from football and real estate to Vietnam and media strategy. Their letters are being revealed for the first time in an exhibit that opens Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
In this July 23, 2020, photo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, tours an exhibit featuring letters written between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Hugh Hewitt, president and CEO of the Nixon Foundation, in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
In this July 23, 2020, photo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, tours an exhibit featuring letters written between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Hugh Hewitt, president and CEO of the Nixon Foundation in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
In this July 23, 2020, photo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, tours an exhibit featuring letters written between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Christopher Nixon Cox, left, grandson of former U.S. president Richard Nixon, in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
In this July 23, 2020, photo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, tours an exhibit featuring letters written between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Hugh Hewitt, president and CEO of the Nixon Foundation, in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
In this July 23, 2020, photo Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, tours an exhibit featuring letters written between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library with Hugh Hewitt, president and CEO of the Nixon Foundation in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 1973 file photo, President Richard Nixon speaks near Orlando, Fla. to the Associated Press Managing Editors annual meeting. Nixon told the APME "I am not a crook." There were two men in 1980s Manhattan who craved validation one a past president, one a future president. Thats how a thirty-something Donald Trump and a seventy-ish Richard Nixon struck up a decade-long correspondence in the 1980s that meandered from football and real estate to Vietnam and media strategy. Their letters are being revealed for the first time in an exhibit that opens Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. (AP Photo)