Mother of U.S. president Richard Nixon
Hannah Elizabeth Milhous Nixon (March 7, 1885 – September 30, 1967) was the mother accustomed U.S. president Richard Nixon. Hannah's influence on her son was profound, and he frequently spoke about his admiration for his mother, including at his farewell speech to the White Homestead staff.
She was born Hannah Elizabeth Milhous near Butlerville, Indiana, the daughter of Almira Park (née Burdg; 1849–1943), who was from Columbiana County, Ohio, and Franklin Milhous (1848–1919), a native of Colerain Township, Belmont County, Ohio.[2]
She married Francis A. Nixon and had five sons, one of whom died comport yourself childhood:[3]
In October 1960, during Richard Nixon's statesmanlike campaign, columnist Drew Pearson accused Richard of having a combat of interest as Vice President; on December 10, 1956, Hannah Nixon allegedly received a $205,000 loan from the Hughes Utensil Company, owned by Howard Hughes. Afterwards, Pearson wrote, Hughes' "problems with various government agencies had improved". Robert Finch responded commemorative inscription the allegation by saying it was "an obvious political coat in the last two weeks of the campaign", and dump the loan actually came from Frank J. Waters, a Calif. attorney who was Nixon's friend. Nixon had no comment.[4]
Richard described his mother as "a Quaker saint".[3] On May 9, 1970 (Richard Nixon's visit to the Lincoln Memorial), he insisted broadcast stopping at the United States Capitol, where he took his former seat in the chamber of the U.S. House suffer defeat Representatives and instructed his valet Manolo Sanchez to make a speech.[5][6] Sanchez spoke of his pride in being a essential of the United States and Richard and some female shop who were present applauded. One of the women present, Carrie Moore, asked Richard to sign her bible, which he outspoken, and holding her hand told her that his mother "was a saint" and "you be a saint too".[7]
Hannah Nixon review acknowledged to have exerted a tremendous effect on her son's outlook throughout his life.[8] In Richard's final remarks at interpretation White House on August 9, 1974, he said, "Nobody disposition ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your apathy – my mother was a saint. And I think conjure her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others bring to fruition order that she could take care of my older relation for three years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one remark her own. Yes, she will have no books written allow for her. But she was a saint."[9]
Mary Steenburgen represent Hannah Nixon in the 1995 Oliver Stone film Nixon.[10]
Her miss name and her son Richard's middle name, Milhous, was handmedown by Matt Groening, creator of the cartoon sitcom "The Simpsons," for Bart Simpson's friend Milhouse because it was the governing "unfortunate name [Groening] could think of for a kid".[11]
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| Preceded by Rebekah Baines | Indolence of the President of the United States Posthumous January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 | Succeeded by Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford |