Nov 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Helen Boehm, the well known porcelain sculptor, died last week. She was 89. Dubbed the “Princess of Porcelain,” her sculptures can be found in the estates and palaces of foreign dignitaries and heads of state, and have been the mainstay of Presidential...
Nov 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Huang Hua, the Chinese diplomat who helped spearhead talks that lead to President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing died Wednesday. He was 97. Huang served as Ambassador to Egypt and Canada, and following the re-establishment of ties with the United States,...
Nov 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
RN’s 1969 Thanksgiving Proclamation: On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to “set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving…” This was the year of the battle of Gettysburg...
Nov 24, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In The Smithsonian, Peter Carlson recounts the famous 1970 meeting between RN and Elvis Presley. He quotes Egil Krogh’s notes: “I’m on your side,” Elvis told Nixon, adding that he’d been studying the drug culture and Communist...
Nov 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
“[I]t’s been some time since a work as nuanced, instructive and fascinating as Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, has appeared,” writes Carl Sferrazza Anthony this morning in The Huffington Post. Mr. Anthony,...
Nov 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The snow had fallen in massive quantities the night before and the temperature had plummeted to single digits. And the man who had provided steady and unruffled guidance to the United States of America during a potentially turbulent time, likely found himself watching...
