Bergen County, Nixon’s adopted home, has complicated memories of disgraced president
AUGUST 9, 2014, 7:45 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014, 4:53 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
The night before he cut Richard Nixon’s hair for the first time, Domenic Parisi was so nervous he barely slept, with visions of limousines descending on his little barbershop on Maple Avenue in downtown Park Ridge.
But at 7:30 a.m., the only activity was two men sitting in an ugly little gold sedan. One man handed the other a $10 bill, and the second man got out of the car. The man was the ex-president of the United States.
That first haircut apparently went well. For nine years, until Nixon died from a stroke in 1994, Parisi cut the former president’s hair every two weeks.
“He was like everybody else,” Parisi said Saturday, 40 years to the day since Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace. “He liked to talk about his family.”
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