At age seven, Lewis took third place in the model yacht regatta at Conservatory Lake in Central Park on May 22, 1926, earning a gold and bronze medal in the 35-inch (890 mm) boat class.

[2] As a youth, Nixon lived in New York City and Montecito, California; he traveled the world extensively, visiting Germany, France, and England.

Nixon graduated from Cate School in Carpinteria, then attended Yale University[3] for two years.

[4] Nixon was selected (inducted) into the United States Army on January 14, 1941, in Trenton, New Jersey.

Shortly after Easy Company fought in the Battle of Carentan on June 12, 1944, he was moved up to the regimental level as the 506th S2.

[7] In Berchtesgaden, he had first choice of an extensive captured wine collection originally assembled at Hermann Göring's orders, comprising bottles stolen from wineries across France and other European occupied territories.

He never fired a shot in combat, though he spent much time on the front lines during intense close fighting.

[12] She had been a student[14] in California in the spring of 1942 when President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of Japanese Americans.