NARA’s Watergate Exhibit Opens this Week

The new Watergate Gallery created by the National Archives opens Thursday, March 31, 2011.   The Richard Nixon Foundation was asked to comment on a draft of the exhibit’s text.  The Foundation’s response to NARA’s request was sent to Assistant Archivist for...

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Nixon!

Today, Pat Nixon would have turned 99.  As was her custom, however, she would have marked the occasion tomorrow – on St. Patrick’s Day.  As to why, her father, Will Ryan, once explained it to her brother, Bill: “Well, she was there in the morning, my St. Patrick’s...

Docent Alice Armstrong Dies at 84

Memorial services 11:30 am, Sunday, March 20 at the Nixon Library The Guild is mourning the loss of one of our founding Docents Alice Armstrong. Alice was a member of the Guild from the opening of the Library in 1990. She was a founding Docent, charter member and life...

A Nixon Documentary in Progress

Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS  that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated...