Sep 24, 2010 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the first television debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. In Slate, David Greenberg writes about the familiar claim that JFK won the debate among those who saw the debate on TV while RN won among those who only heard it...
Sep 23, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
One day in 1974, as Spring began to give way to Summer, Frank Gannon—wordsmith and White House Fellow—took a walk in Washington, largely to get away from the stress induced by the Nixon White House’s ever-increasing Watergate milieu. He found his way to an old...
Sep 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
David Austin Roses’ Michael Marriott, one of the world’s experts on quality roses and gardens, visited the Nixon Library’s gardens Tuesday. His visit came at the end of a 9 state tour – plus Canada – of America’s premier rose...
Sep 21, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Dr. James H. Cavanaugh was named to the Nixon Foundation board of directors last week. A successful businessman and influential expert on health care policy, Cavanaugh was a key adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. He is now a managing director of Health Care...
Sep 20, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
This afternoon, our President, in a rather self-conscious move evoking unfortunate memories of Jimmy Carter’s 1979 effort at what we would now call “reset,” that resulted in the infamous “malaise” speech, appeared at a “town...
Sep 20, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
From today’s OC Register: San Clemente’s Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens is seeking the public’s help to gather memorabilia and personal memories from the city’s “Western White House” period for an upcoming exhibit....