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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Donald Nixon |
| Address |
Whittier, California , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 23, 1914
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| Died | June 27, 1987
(72 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | Craverguy
Nov 23, 2008 02:01am |
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| Info | Francis Donald Nixon (23 November 1914 – 27 June 1987) was a brother of United States President Richard Nixon.
He married Clara Jane Lemke and had a son named Donald A. Nixon.
In January 1957 Howard Hughes lent Donald Nixon $205,000 to bail out his "Nixon's" drive-in restaurant in Whittier, California. The restaurant went bankrupt less than a year later. Questions about whether this was a political favor dogged Richard Nixon during his campaign for president and later when he sought the governorship of California.
He never lived it down, and one of the many speculated motives for the 1972 Watergate burglary that ultimately led to Richard Nixon's resignation was a desire to find proof that the then-Democratic National Committee chairman Larry O'Brien was also secretly working for Hughes. John H. Meier, one of Howard Hughes's former business advisers, in collaboration with former Vice President of the United States Hubert Humphrey and others, was using Donald Nixon to feed misinformation to his brother the President. Meier told Donald that he was sure the Democrats would win the election since they had a lot of information on Richard Nixon’s illicit dealings with Howard Hughes that had never been released, and that Larry O’Brien had the information (O’Brien didn’t actually have any documents but Meier wanted Richard Nixon to think he did). Donald then called his brother and told him that Meier gave the Democrats all the Hughes information that could destroy him (Richard Nixon) and that O’Brien has it.
In 1973, financier Robert Vesco fled the United States hoping to avoid prosecution on charges of embezzlement. Shortly before his departure, in hopes of shutting off the United States Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into his activities, Vesco routed substantial political contributions to President Richard Nixon through Donald Nixon, Jr., Donald Nixon's son.
In 1974 the staff of the Senate Watergate committee disclosed additional information to support the charge that Charles Rebozo gave or lent part of a $100,000 campaign contribution to President Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, and to Nixon's brothers Donald and Edward Nixon.
Donald Nixon, Jr. was held in Cuba in 1995 after obtaining assistance from Vesco in working with the Cuban government on clinical trials for an immunity-boosting drug. The clinical trials yielded positive results, however the operation was shut down by Cuban authorities subsequent to Vesco's attempt to defraud Nixon and Raul Castro, President Fidel Castro's younger brother.
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