Early Life
Whitehead was born in Neodesha, Kansas, the eldest of four children of Clay and Helen Hinton Whitehead.
As a young boy, be was interested in telecommunications, spending hours on his ham radio talking to amateur radio operators around the world.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his undergraduate and master's degrees in electrical engineering, in 1960 and 1961 respectively, and a Ph.D. in management in 1967.
Before joining the Nixon campaign in 1968 as an expert on budget policies, Whitehead was a RAND Corporation economist and defense analyst.
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