Nixon's son-in-law shares White House stories

Ed Cox, son-in-law of President Nixon, will be in Grand Rapids to share his first-hand experiences of what the White House was like during the Nixon years. Cox campaigned extensively for the re-election of his father-in-law and after the election traveled to Europe and the Soviet Union, meeting privately with leaders and their families.

The Nixon White House — A View From the Inside
Monday, May 16
7 p.m.
Ford Museum
Free and open to the public

Cox graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He worked with consumer advocate Ralph Nader as a founder of what came to be called “Nader’s Raiders,” co-authoring The Nader Report on the Federal Trade Commission and writing articles and editorials for The New Republic.

Cox was a lawyer with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, and served in the Reagan Administration as the senior vice president and general counsel of the government corporation, The United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

Cox is a founding director of the Student Sponsor Partners, serves on the Commission on Judicial Nomination, is chairman of the New York Council of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and is a trustee of the State University of New York, SUNY. Cox is also director of the New York Institute for Special Education.

After the 2006 election, Cox chaired Attorney-Elect Andrew Cuomo’s environmental transition team. In 2007 and ‘08, Cox chaired John McCain’s New York campaign.

For more information, contact the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at (616) 331-2770, or visit www.allpresidents.org.