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He was the third of five children: Harold (June 1, 1909 – March 7, 1933) Richard (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) Donald Arthur (May 26, 1918 – August 10, 1925) Edward (May 3, 1930) In January 1957 Howard Hughes lent Donald $205,000 to bail out his ""s" drive-in restaurant in Whittier, California. The restaurant went bankrupt less than a year later. Questions about whether this was a political favor dogged Richard during his campaign for president and later when he sought the governorship of California.
He never lived it down and one of the many speculated motives for the 1972 Watergate burglary that ultimately led to Richard "s resignation was a desire to find proof that the then-Democratic National Committee chairman Larry O"Brien was also secretly working for Hughes.
In 1973, financier Robert Vesco fled the United States hoping to avoid prosecution on charges of embezzlement. In 1974 the staff of the Senate Watergate committee disclosed additional information to support the charge that Charles Rebozo gave or lent part of a $100,000 campaign contribution to President "s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and to "s brothers, Donald and Edward.
Donald was portrayed by Sean Stone in the 1995 Oliver Stone film.