Post Senate Career
On October 7, 2003, he announced that he would not run in the 2004 election. Republican Tom Coburn won the election to succeed Nickles.
Nickles went on to found The Nickles Group, a government consulting group in Washington, D.C.. He also serves on the board of directors of a number of public companies, such as Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy.
He was one of the politicians featured in the movie Traffic giving his opinion on the war on drugs.
Nickles and his wife, Linda, have 4 children and several grandchildren.
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