Editing Chester W. Nimitz (section)

===Inactive duty as a fleet admiral===
[[File:RetirementParty Nimitz and Vandegriff - with President Truman, SECNAV Sullivan and their Wives.jpg|thumb|Secretary of Navy John L. Sullivan's farewell party for Fleet Admiral USN (CNO) and General A.A. Vandegrift, USMC (CMC), on their retirement (December 1947)]]
Nimitz retired from office as CNO on 15 December 1947, and received a third Gold Star in lieu of a fourth Navy Distinguished Service Medal. However, since the rank of fleet admiral is a lifetime appointment, he remained on active duty for the rest of his life, with full pay and benefits. He and his wife, Catherine, moved to [[Berkeley, California]]. After he suffered a serious fall in 1964, he and Catherine moved to US Naval quarters on [[Yerba Buena Island]] in the [[San Francisco Bay]].

In San Francisco, Nimitz served in the mostly ceremonial post as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy in the Western Sea Frontier. He worked to help restore goodwill with Japan after World War II by helping to raise funds for the restoration of the Japanese Imperial Navy battleship {{ship|Japanese battleship|Mikasa||2}}, Admiral [[Heihachiro Togo]]'s flagship at the [[Battle of Tsushima]] in 1905.

From 1949 to 1953, Nimitz served as UN-appointed plebiscite administrator for [[UN mediation of Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Admiral Nimitz Resigns U.N. Position as Plebiscite Administrator for Kashmir |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19530904&id=bulOAAAAIBAJ&pg=3701,1190572 |date=September 4, 1953 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |agency=Reuters |access-date=July 27, 2016}}</ref> His proposed role as administrator was accepted by Pakistan but rejected by India.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fai |first=Ghulam Nabi |title=Kashmir and the United Nations |url=https://www.k-state.edu/psa/Kashmir_UN_lec.pdf |date=December 4, 2003 |pages=2–4 |access-date=July 27, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110104913/https://www.k-state.edu/psa/Kashmir_UN_lec.pdf |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Panigrahi |first=D. N. |title=Jammu and Kashmir, the Cold War and the West |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOLfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |date=2012 |page=97 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-113-6-51752-5|access-date=July 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Korbel |first=Josef |author-link=Josef Korbel |title=Danger in Kashmir |publisher=Princeton University Press |edition=second |year=1966 |orig-year=first published 1954 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Q7WCgAAQBAJ |pages=155–156|isbn=9781400875238 }}</ref>

Nimitz became a member of the [[Bohemian Club]] of San Francisco. In 1948, he sponsored a Bohemian dinner in honor of US Army General [[Mark Wayne Clark|Mark Clark]], known for his campaigns in North Africa and Italy.<ref>Navy Department Library. [http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/nimitz.htm "Documents relating to Admiral Nimitz's naval career"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721060218/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/nimitz.htm |date=July 21, 2009 }}. Retrieved on July 10, 2009.</ref>

Nimitz served from 1948 to 1956 as a regent of the [[University of California]], where he had formerly been a faculty member as a professor of naval science for the [[Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps]] program. Nimitz was honored on 17 October 1964, by the University of California on Nimitz Day.