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SUNDAY PROFILE : Nixon’s Taylor
As director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, he is the official keeper of the Nixon legacy. He was one of Nixon’s closest confidants in his later years and is co-executor of the former president’s estate.
But John H. Taylor, 41, wasn’t born into the Nixon camp.
When he met Nixon in 1979, Taylor was a Democrat. A 24-year-old college student, his views of the 37th president had been shaped largely by politically liberal parents and the Watergate scandal. Indeed, early on, Nixon would affectionately introduce Taylor as “our house liberal.”
Taylor hadn’t anticipated meeting the former president personally when he and three other political science students at UC San Diego were hired to do research for a book Nixon was writing on world leaders.
“The fact that he took time to meet with us was astonishing to me,” Taylor says. “I was struck by the care he took to ask each of us about ourselves and what our impressions were of the leaders he had asked us to study.”
Clutching an autographed copy of Nixon’s memoirs as he left the former Western White House in San Clemente, Taylor never imagined he’d wind up making a career of Richard Nixon.
Hired as a full-time researcher and editorial assistant in 1980, he rose to become
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George M. Trotter Papers
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Collection
Identifier: MSC 1027
Scope and Contents
The George M. Trotter Papers consist primarily of election and campaign related material produced by both George Trotter and the Knox County Republican Party. Other personal items include a marriage certificate, taxes, receipts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, accounts, invitations, membership cards, programs, and publications. The marriage certificate certifies the marriage of Charles Harrison Smith and Margaret Shipe. Programs include 1913 Knoxville High School Commencement and the 1898 University of Tennessee commencement. Betting cards reveal how Knoxvillians bet on horse races in the early 20th century. Correspondence to and from George M. Trotter is either political or professional in nature. The newspaper clippings cover Trotter’s political career and election results as well as other family news, but other stories deemed significant by the Trotter family, including President Nixon’s resignation in 1974 are available. Political historians will note a large collection of Knox County Republican Party correspondence, election information, mailers, and sample ballots. Material for George Trotter’s various campaigns for tax assessor and judge. The c
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