Background
His mother, Carol Nixon is the President of Utah Families Foundation and headed the Utah Arts Council of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums.
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William Nixon
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Career
After working as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, Nixon served for more than 15 years as a senior staff member and speech writer on Capitol Hill, the majority of the time with Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware. At the age of 16 in 1976, he worked on the first campaign of Utah Republican senate candidate Orrin Hatch and later worked for Senator Orrin Hatch. Additionally, he worked on the staffs of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and Government Affairs Committee.
Nixon is the author of several published books
The first, Strategic Compromise, was published in 1990. Nixon began his professional career as a journalist, founding and editing American Times Magazine, a regional conservative publication that focused on politics and culture, and working as associate editor of The Las Vegan City Magazine.
He served as editor of Quicksilver, a literary journal, and in 1990 published his first book, a novel entitled Strategic Compromise which was promoted actively by Orrin Hatch. Nixon"s articles, essays, and short stories have appeared in magazines and journals throughout the world.
His work is translated regularly, particularly into Mandarin, Chinese, as he is a monthly contributor to the popular Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom Magazine, often referred to as China"s Vanity Fair.
In 1998, he co-authored The Power to Destroy with Senator William Roth. The book was an exposé documenting Senate oversight hearings involving the Internal Revenue Service. In 2001, Nixon was hired by Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and chairman of Policy Impact Communications to serve as president of the company which was founded by, among others, Barbour and Editor Gillespie in 1996.
Upon Barbour"s election to serve as Governor of Mississippi in 2003, Nixon became chairman of Policy Impact Communications.
In 2009, the firm was hired by the government of Kazakhstan to assist in a public relations campaign in response to the film Borat. Prior to joining Policy Impact Communications, Nixon served as president and chief executive of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association from 1999 to 2001, During the Bahraini uprising, it was reported that Policy Impact Communications established the Bahrain American Council to lobby politicians, such as Eni Faleomavaega, to support Bahrain.
Nixon is also frequently called upon to speak on governmental issues to groups throughout the country.
Membership
Nixon is a Fellow at the University of Utah"s Hinckley Institute of Politics and serves as a member of the National Presidential Advisory Board at Utah Valley University.
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