President Nixon’s Bestsellers

As I write, the lead news story at Yahoo concerns one of the most keenly anticipated new books of the fall – George W. Bush’s Decision Points, scheduled for November publication by Crown. This AP article, by Douglass K. Daniel, discusses the expectations...

RN and the Arts

In the 1960 campaign, the magazine Musical America sent the presidential candidates a brief questionnaire about arts policy.  Fifty years ago today, RN replied: Our great lack today is not sources of subsidy or an honest desire to promote the arts, but a program for...

Robert Ingersoll, R.I.P.

Robert Ingersoll, former Chairman and CEO of manufacturer Borg-Warner and RN’s U.S. Ambassador to Japan, passed away on August 22. He was 96: Mr. Ingersoll was chairman and chief executive of the Chicago-based Borg-Warner Corporation when President Richard M....

Video: President Nixon Talks About His Early Life

Edward Nixon returned to the Nixon Library on Tuesday to portray his older brother and America’s 37th President, Richard Nixon. Nixon told kids about his family’s humble origins and growing up with his three older brothers in Whittier, California....

Nixon, Lincoln, Et Al Before the High Court

The other day I came across a column in the Oklahoma City Journal-Record by Tom Wolfe – not The Right Stuff’s author, but a civil litigator practicing in that metropolis.  Mr. Wolfe’s column, occasioned by the recent swearing-in of Justice Elena...