The Whittier Speech is probably in the Library of America _Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays_, edited by Louis Budd. Contrary to what is suggested in Kathy O'Connell's query, the Whittier to which the speech refers is not Whittier, CA, but John Greenleaf Whittier, whose birthday was the occasion for Twain's ill-fated speech. And by the way, Nixon attended Whittier College, but he was born in Yorba Linda, CA, the site of both the boyhood home and the Nixon library. Larry Howe