Arthur Nixon

Arthur Nixon

Arthur Burdg Nixon (May 26, 1918August 19, 1925) was a brother of President Richard Nixon.

He was the fourth of five children:

*Harold Nixon (June 1 1909March 7 1933)
*Richard Nixon (January 9 1913April 22 1994)
*Donald Nixon (November 23 1914June 27 1987)
*Arthur Nixon
*Edward Nixon (May 3 1930)

Arthur Nixon and his brother Harold both died young from tuberculosis. Though Harold contracted it first, Arthur succumbed to the disease first. Arthur's death affected the family deeply, and Richard Nixon attributed the disease to their father's preference for raw milk. He spoke of his brother in a 1983 interview:

:Nothing could be done about it, absolutely nothing. And so I recall so well, oh, the days before he died. And I recall particularly -- you hear of my father, this tough, rough, diamond in the rough. I'll never forget it. After the doctor, Doctor Wilson, from Whittier, had gone up and diagnosed the case, after they'd make a spinal tap and found that it was tubercular meningitis and said that there was no hope, he came down the stairs and my father said, "They say" -- he was crying uncontrollably. He says, "They say the little darling's going to die". Gannon, Frank (February 9, 1983). [http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/nixon/nixonday1.html#Tape%201%20Arthur%20Nixon%2001:12:18 Richard Nixon/Frank Gannon Interviews Day 1, Tape 1 01:12:41] .]

Richard Nixon also wrote an essay about his brother:

:There's a grave now, out in the hills, but, like the picture, it contains only the bodily image of my brother. And so when I'm tired and worried and I'm almost ready to quit trying to live as I should, I look up, I see the picture of a little boy with sparkling eyes and curly hair. I remember the childlike prayer. I pray that it may prove true for me as it did for my brother Arthur. Gannon, Frank (February 9, 1983). [http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/nixon/nixonday1.html#Tape%201%20Arthur%20Nixon%2001:12:18 Richard Nixon/Frank Gannon Interviews Day 1, Tape 1 01:16:55] . ]

Arthur Nixon was portrayed by Joshua Preston in the 1995 Oliver Stone film "Nixon".

References

External links

* [http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=FunFacts&category=Home Nixon Fun Facts] via Nixon Foundation


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