Richard Nixon him for doing little to help the ERA or their cause after his election. Nevertheless, he appointed more women to administration positions than Lyndon Johnson had. After a nearly decade-long national effort, the United States won the race to land astronauts on the Moon on July 20, 1969, with the flight of Apollo 11. Nixon spoke with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their moonwalk. He called the conversation "the most historic phone call ever made from the White House". Nixon was unwilling to keep funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the high level seen during
Christopher Nixon Cox Christopher Nixon Cox Christopher Nixon Cox (born March 14, 1979) is an American lawyer based in New York. He is the son of Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox and grandson of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States. Christopher Nixon Cox was born and raised in New York, the only child of current New York State GOP Chairman Edward F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox, older daughter of Richard Nixon, U.S. President from 1969 to 1974. He graduated "magna cum laude" from Princeton University with a B.A.