- Taught anthropology at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin.
- While serving in the Truman Administration, Nash fought to end segregation in the armed services. He worked closely with Thurgood Marshall, then a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and later an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Accused by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin of being a Communist.
- In January 1952, he became the first member of the Truman staff to be accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin of being a Communist, a charge Nash denounced as a ''contemptible lie.'' The attack prompted Truman to defend his adviser and call McCarthy a pathological character assassin who needed no information to make accusations against others.
- An adviser to President Truman on minority affairs and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for five years in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.
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