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President Nixon’s Bestsellers

As I write, the lead news story at Yahoo concerns one of the most keenly anticipated new books of the fall – George W. Bush’s Decision Points, scheduled for November publication by Crown. This AP article, by Douglass K. Daniel, discusses the expectations...

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RN and the Arts

In the 1960 campaign, the magazine Musical America sent the presidential candidates a brief questionnaire about arts policy.  Fifty years ago today, RN replied: Our great lack today is not sources of subsidy or an honest desire to promote the arts, but a program...

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Robert Ingersoll, R.I.P.

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...

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Video: President Nixon Talks About His Early Life

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...

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Nixon, Lincoln, Et Al Before the High Court

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...

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38 Years Ago – RN Honors Admiral John S. McCain II

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...

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Nixon and Fiorina

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...

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RN and Latino Americans

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...

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Henry Kissinger Backs the New Nixon

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...

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39 Years Ago – RN Establishes Lincoln Historic Site

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...

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“A Saint Who Walked Among Us”

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...

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“If you give me a week, I might think of one.”

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....

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