Edward Nixon, the youngest and last surviving brother of former President Richard Nixon, died Wednesday. He was 88.
Edward Nixon, right, pictured at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in 2015, died Wednesday at a nursing facility in Washington. He was 88.
that Edward Nixon, a Seattle geologist and U.S. Navy veteran, died at a skilled nursing facility in Bothell, Wash.The former president’s daughters, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, remembered their uncle as “our family’s rock.” “He was a source of guidance to our father, whose favorite little Eddie grew up into a renowned geologist with an infectious curiosity,” the daughters said in a statement. “He was always thinking, always working — never for his own benefit, but to uncover the answers to questions that science poses in our world.”
Edward Nixon worked on his brother’s presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972, when he was co-chairman of the Nixon reelection committee, and remained his ardent defender even after the former president’s resignation duringA few months earlier, the younger Nixon testified at the 1974 conspiracy and obstruction trial of former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans and former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell in connection with a $200,000 cash contribution to the president’s 1972 reelection campaign.
An original member of the board of directors of the Nixon foundation, Edward Nixon was reportedly among those who felt the
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