[1] Nixon graduated from Duke University with a BS in 1952 and from North Carolina State College with an MS in 1954.

[1] He was an expert on global energy use and spent much of his professional life studying how people use natural resources.

[4] In 1974, Edward Nixon was the first witness for the defense in the Maurice Stans and John N. Mitchell conspiracy trial.

Later that year, 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 Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, and to Edward and Donald Nixon.

[7][8] Nixon also taught as an assistant professor of naval science at the University of Washington in addition to working as a helicopter flight instructor.