Ruckelshaus Remembers The First Earth Day

In the Wall Street Journal, William Ruckelshaus — the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency and a panelist in the Nixon Library’s upcoming forum on RN’s environmental record — writesthat the Nixon Administration did much to tackle the environmental...

RN And The Green Jobs Trio

In The Sacramento Bee, Wayne Madsen’s writes that President Nixon’s environmental initiatives were an “early testament to the success of green pioneers” and that he “visualized the green jobs” that would “spearhead the nation’s economy:” Although last December’s...

Larry Higby Honored With Horatio Alger Award

Nixon Foundation board member and former RN Assistant Chief-of-Staff Larry Higby is among 2010’s recipients of the Horatio Alger Award. The award is given every year to “dedicated community leaders who demonstrate individual initiative and a commitment to...

Forty Years On – Apollo XIII

The Kennedy Space Center is remembering the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission: The 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 is being celebrated on Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, At the time of the oxygen-tank explosion two days into the...

Docents Hold 16th Annual Geography Awards

The Nixon Library Docent Guild hosted their 16th annual geography award ceremony in the East Room at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Tuesday, honoring over 300 Orange County students who achieved perfect scores for accurately identifying the world’s...