Feb 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
RN talks about the first time he met Patricia Ryan: One day in 1938, Mrs. Lilly Baldwin, the director of the local amateur theatre group, telephoned me to ask if I would like to play the part of a prosecuting attorney in their upcoming production of Ayn Rand’s...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
As I listened to the well earned and much deserved tributes paid this past weekend to the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan on his centennial, and thought about RN’s coming 100th birthday in 2013, I recalled this anecdote from Reagan’s memoir: In 1962, while...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan’s shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN’s direction. He...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Donald Rumsfeld, the 13th and 21st Secretary of Defense talks to RN Special Assistant Frank Gannon about working on his memoir, Known and Unknown, which arrives on bookshelves today, and his years in the Nixon Administration. The interview covers his tenure as...
Feb 7, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Nixon Foundation Board Member, Nixon Speechwriter and Chief Reagan Speechwriter writes in the OC Register: Of the eight years and multiple hours I spent collaborating with President Ronald Reagan on speeches, among the most frequent questions I’m asked is, what...
Feb 6, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Ronald Reagan turned 100 years old yesterday. A fellow Californian, RN crossed paths several times with Reagan throughout his political career, including in Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign and then as rivals for the presidency in 1968. RN admired him for...
