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With the flowers soon to be in full bloom, the Richard Nixon Foundation is highlighting the Nixon Library’s sprawling gardens, featuring...
With the flowers soon to be in full bloom, the Richard Nixon Foundation is highlighting the Nixon Library’s sprawling gardens, featuring...
11:00 am * SATURDAY * SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 Event is free and open to the public Join us at this free East Room event, marking the...
The woman who entered her role by saying that she simply wanted to go down in history as “the wife of a President” accomplished...
Robert Ingersoll, former Chairman and CEO of manufacturer Borg-Warner and RN’s U.S. Ambassador to Japan, passed away on August 22. He was 96: Mr. Ingersoll was chairman and chief executive of the Chicago-based Borg-Warner Corporation when President Richard...
Edward Nixon returned to the Nixon Library on Tuesday to portray his older brother and America’s 37th President, Richard Nixon. Nixon told kids about his family’s humble origins and growing up with his three older brothers in Whittier, California. “We...
The other day I came across a column in the Oklahoma City Journal-Record by Tom Wolfe – not The Right Stuff’s author, but a civil litigator practicing in that metropolis. Mr. Wolfe’s column, occasioned by the recent swearing-in of Justice...
On September 1, 1972, RN spoke at the retirement ceremony of Admiral John S. McCain II , Commander of U.S. Forces in the Pacific and father of future Arizona Senator and then Vietnam War POW John S. McCain III. Speaking without notes at Hickam Air Force Base...
Dan Morain of The Sacramento Bee writes of the connection between RN and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina: President Richard M. Nixon took office pledging to remake the U.S. Supreme Court and appointed four justices during his first term. If Nixon had...
In describing the GOP split on the politics of immigration, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarette blames RN and the “Southern Strategy” (though no such strategy ever existed) as the first cause: For more than 40 years, since the advent of the “Southern...
RN’s former Secretary of State announced that he will back the 37th President’s grandson for New York’s 1st Congressional seat: Thirty seven years almost to the day after former president Richard Nixon appointed him Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger...
Thirty-nine years ago, President Richard Nixon, in the very same hall Abraham Lincoln used to deliver his famous “House Divided” speech that would lead to his nomination and election as President, remarked on signing a bill establishing the Lincoln Home National...
Anne Higgins, long time assistant to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, passed away on August 12. She was 71. Higgins joined RN at his law firm, Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander in the mid-1960′s and went on to serve him as assistant director for...
At a press conference fifty years ago today, the topic of Vice President Nixon’s role came up. President Eisenhower had this exchange with Time‘s Charles Mohr: Q. Mr. Mohr: We understand that the power of decision is entirely yours, Mr. President....
As the summer of 1948 uneventfully passed through July and entered August, Congressmen and Senators eagerly awaited a much needed respite to escape the sweltering heat characteristic of a Washington summer. As they lightheartedly made calls to reserve flights and...
Yesterday, James Jackson Kilpatrick, whose journalistic career spanned nearly seven decades from 1941 until his final columns last year, died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, of congestive heart failure. He was ten weeks short of his ninetieth...
Four Presidents have participated in the Nixon Foundation’s Meet the Presidents series, but never a First Lady – until First Lady Pat Nixon graced the East Room at the Nixon Library today. She spoke to children and audience members about her rise from poverty...
Fifty years ago today, while campaigning in Greensboro, North Carolina, RN bruised his knee on a car door. Normally, such an event would go unnoticed in everyday life, much less the grand drama of a presidential race. In this case, though, the bruise led to...
As President Nixon and his campaign team prepared for his reelection bid in the spring of 1972, a small tropical storm was winding its way north from the Yucatan Peninsula. By June 17, the storm had increased dramatically in intensity and speed, tearing its way...
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