Which U.S. President actually lived in an abandoned tool shed during his college years?

In the middle of the Great Depression, one of America’s most notorious figures was living in an abandoned tool shed in the middle of a North Carolina forest. This was no ordinary vagrant. Rather, he would become the 37th president of the United States and Duke University’s most famous alum, but in the winter of 1934, he was a penniless law student, separated from his family and deathly afraid of failing to live up to their high expectations.

Forty years before his extra-legal endeavors as president would be studied by generations of students, Richard M. Nixon was himself a law student at Duke. During his three years there, Nixon not only learned the intricacies of the law but also how to overcome hardship, confront his deepest anxieties — and engineer a break-in.