New Florida convention for Edward Cox
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Party Chairman Edward Cox speaks at the New York Republican Convention. (June 2, 2010)
Forty-four years ago this month, a 21-year-old Edward Cox, then only the boyfriend of Tricia Nixon, the leading presidential candidate's elder daughter, enjoyed a ringside seat to history at the Republican National Convention in Miami.
Candidate Richard Nixon went on to win the 1968 election. In 1972, the Westhampton-raised Cox returned to Miami for another GOP convention as the president's...