John Vincent Brennan was born on August 16,1937 and is a retired United States Marine Corps officer and former political aide.
16 Facts About Jack Brennan
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Jack Brennan is best known as being US President Richard Nixon's post-resignation chief of staff.
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Jack Brennan was born on August 16,1937, in Fall River, Massachusetts, and attended Providence College, a Catholic college in Providence, Rhode Island, where he graduated in 1959.
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Jack Brennan served with the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, where he earned a Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart Medal at the Battle of Khe Sanh.
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In 1969, then-Major Jack Brennan was appointed as a Marine Corps Aide to President Nixon; during that time he rose to Colonel.
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Jack Brennan remained attached to Nixon during his resignation after the Watergate scandal in 1974; he was aboard the helicopter and airplane that flew the Nixon family back to their home state of California.
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When Nixon returned to La Casa Pacifica in San Clemente, California, nicknamed "The Western White House" during his administration, Jack Brennan left the Marines and served as the ex-president's chief of staff.
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Jack Brennan originally refused the position after some of Nixon's associates made it sound like a business proposal; the financial aspect was not of interest to Brennan.
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However, after repeated requests from Nixon, Jack Brennan agreed to leave his career of over 16 years and join the former president's staff.
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Jack Brennan was initially concerned because Frost had the right to edit the interview tapes however he wanted, and could thus edit them to change the focus of what was said and potentially make Nixon look bad; however, he was able to relax his concerns upon getting to know Frost.
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Frost's producer, John Birt, approached Jack Brennan about extending the interview.
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Jack Brennan originally turned the idea down, but after discussing the situation with his staff, agreed that Nixon should voluntarily go further and that some expression of regret for Watergate needed to be put on record.
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Jack Brennan felt Frost's own book about the interviews, which served as writer Peter Morgan's basis for the play and movie, was "fairly accurate"; however, he felt Morgan's scripts were "a complete fiction" based on actual events.
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Jack Brennan's input led the set designer to remove a bar from the Nixon house set; he met with actor Kevin Bacon, who played him in the film.
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Jack Brennan noted that a scene in the film where he is portrayed threatening Frost over the phone if he got the facts wrong, never occurred and was made up by Morgan for dramatic purposes; however, he did warn Frost, in person over lunch, not to re-edit the footage to change the focus to make Nixon look bad.
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Jack Brennan is a booster for the Providence College Friars and donated his papers from his work for Nixon to the school's archives.