Step 1 : Introduction to the question "4. Sometimes it's the middle names that can be an embarrassment. Which twentieth-century president took his mother's maiden name "Milhous", but probably wasn't called that in the White House?"
...1. Jimmy Carter 2. Herbert Hoover 3. Ronald Reagan 4. Richard Nixon Nixon was born in California in 1913 to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon, a strict Quaker mother. From a relatively poor family with a strict upbringing, Nixon earned a scholarship to Duke University's law school, which would signal his future in politics. After losing to John F. Kennedy in the extremely close 1960 presidential election, Nixon dropped out of the public sight; his ability to revive from obscurity to win the 1968 presidential election over Hubert Humphrey was remarkable. It probably wasn't Nixon's middle name that was most embarrassing for him as president, though; despite his strong foreign policy record, Nixon will be remembered for his role in the Watergate affair, which caused him to be the first-ever president to resign the office.
