Donald A. Nixon

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Donald A. Nixon, Jr. is the son of President Richard Nixon’s brother, F. Donald Nixon.

Donald Nixon, Jr. blamed his uncle, President Richard Nixon, for sending him to work in Europe for financier Robert Vesco, who routed substantial political contributions to Richard Nixon, through Donald Nixon Jr., in hopes of avoiding prosecution on charges of embezzlement by shutting off the United States Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into his activities.

Vesco also became wanted on drug-smuggling charges that connected him with Columbia’s Medellin cocaine cartel, and on May 31, 1995, Donald Nixon, Jr. and Vesco where both arrested in Cuba while working with the Cuban government on clinical trials for an immunity-boosting drug. Vesco tried to defraud Nixon and Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul Castro which led to the arrests. Nixon was later prevented from leaving Cuba but was free to leave on July 2,1995^[1]. Vesco was convicted of “economic crimes against the state” and in 1996 was sentenced to thirteen years in jail.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jack Anderson wrote an article that newspapers printed on October 30, 1973^[2], revealing that Don Nixon, Jr., while he was in Geneva, had written a letter to Howard Hughes personal advisor John H. Meier, who he knew, angry at the President in regards to having to associate with Vesco. “This place is beginning to get me down due to the people I have to work with. Gil Straub (a Vesco executive) is an ok guy, but this Vesco fella and I don’t get it on. Oh well, I got myself into this by letting my parents and the great god in the White House pull wool over my eyelids…”, and that “I’ll know where I fit in to this organization in the next couple of weeks, that is, if I don’t happen to kill Vesco first…”

Previously to this article Jack Anderson had reported that they had several affidavits from individuals who had sworn that they heard F. Donald Nixon say he never was involved with any business deals without the permission of his brother, the President. The White House denied any veto power over F. Donald Nixon’s activities.

However, one of Donald Nixon, Jr.’s letters to John Meier^[3]seemed to agree with the affidavits. On November 1971, Donald Nixon, Jr. wrote to Meier saying “So far, I’ve met with some pretty interesting people and have hopes of doing business with them. One of them is an American citizen, but was born in Peking and has the OK from the WH for me to do business with him”. It was believed that “WH” meant the White House.

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