OC Register: Students Debate Founding Fathers

“Students Debate Founding Fathers,” By Elizabeth Nixon, OC Register: Students got a rare opportunity to argue with the nation’s founding fathers Tuesday. “Why won’t you let women vote or hold office?” one student demanded. “I...

Pat Nixon and Panda Diplomacy

Coming off the heels of Chinese Premier Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington, President Obama announced that two giant pandas in the Washington National Zoo – the zoo’s most famous residents – will remain in the U.S. for five more years rather than return to China as was...

Gingrich: The EPA Was Founded on Sound Ideas

During a speech in Iowa last week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for the replacement of the Environmental Protection Agency with an organization that could better work with businesses and embraces the future of science and technology: Gingrich, who has...

David Frye, RIP

David Frye has passed away at the age of 77.  He did a variety of impressions, and the New York Times obituary explains his most famous: It was Nixon, however, who kept Mr. Frye a regular on the top television variety shows and at the big Las Vegas casinos, perhaps...

Jewish Press: How RN Saved Soviet Jewry

The Jewish Press highlights colleague Bob Bostock’s commentary on President Nixon’s policy of détente and how that policy allowed thousands of Jews to escape Soviet oppression: The recent release of additional Nixon White House presidential documents and...

Obama Echoes Nixon

“We will move forward together, or not at all,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address.  Readers of this blog may have noticed that this line echoed one from RN’s 1969 inaugural:  “To go forward at all is to go forward...