Sammy meets nixon in 19 54. Nixon was the vice president at that point. They stay in touch. When nixon becomes president, he asked sammy to join a white house advisory council. The mail sammy gets over the next few months is so vicious that he hands over some of the letters to the fbi. If you look at the back cover of sammy's autobiography, why me? There's a blurb from alex haley, who wrote roots,. another from aaron spelling, the creator of nine o two on o, among a million other things. It's maybe the greatest blur line up in the history of publishing.