Sep 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On a late September Monday evening fifty years ago today, 80 million Americans (a number approaching half the population of the United States at the time) sat before their flickering black and white television sets to watch the first televised presidential debate in...
Sep 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On September 26, 1960 cathode rays changed presidential politics forever. For on that Monday evening Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy faced off on the first televised presidential debate in American campaign history. Neither Nixon nor Kennedy was a stranger to debates....
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...
