Kenneth Reese Cole Jr. Explained

Ken Cole
Office:White House Domestic Affairs Advisor
President:Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Term Start:January 8, 1974
Term End:February 28, 1975
Predecessor:Melvin Laird
Successor:James M. Cannon
Office1:White House Staff Secretary
President1:Richard Nixon
Term Start1:January 20, 1969
Term End1:November 1969
Successor1:John Brown
Birth Date:27 January 1938
Birth Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Willsboro, New York, U.S.
Party:Republican

Kenneth Reese "Ken" Cole Jr. (January 27, 1938  - August 16, 2001) was an aide to President Richard Nixon, serving his entire administration from 1969 to Nixon's resignation in 1974. He continued to work in the White House under Gerald Ford.

Cole worked at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency under H. R. Haldeman and went with Haldeman to work on the Nixon campaign in 1969. When Nixon was elected, he entered government, working as an assistant to John Ehrlichman and in 1974 became assistant to the president for domestic affairs.

Cole was not implicated in the Watergate scandal—his name does not even appear in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book All the President's Men.

He died in Willsboro, New York, at age 63.

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