Apr 6, 2013 | News, The Nixons, Watergate
Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) is a name little known now except to students of Hungarian literature. But in a short story he wrote in 1929, he introduced a concept that he derived from studying the mathematics of probability, and which, for over a quarter-century, has...
Mar 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s trip to Israel — his first as POTUS — has appropriately generated much interest and intrigue, given the delicate state of affairs in the Middle East. It is appropriate on such an occasion, as many media outlets have done, to recall...
Mar 23, 2013 | News, Nixon Library Events
As reported earlier at nixonfoundation.org, George Washington’s personal copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States, in book form, went on display yesterday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, following an unveiling ceremony...
Mar 16, 2013 | News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
Today, March 16, would have been Pat Nixon’s 101st birthday….but since her Irish-American father Bill Ryan always liked to think of her as his “Saint Patrick’s babe born in the morn,” she grew up celebrating her birthday on the 17th, and...
Mar 9, 2013 | China, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Although two months have passed since the centennial of President Nixon’s birth, it is only in the last week that two writers of eminence have written about it. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the Greek shipping heir, essayist, and bon vivant, and Conrad Black (also...
Mar 3, 2013 | News, Vice President Nixon
Yesterday, C-SPAN’s American History TV aired an unedited excerpt of RN’s 1991 interview with independent producer George Coburn about his recollections as Vice President to President Eisenhower. RN discussed Ike’s leadership and the 34th...
