Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
Although Richard Nixon’s pre-presidential speeches and writings sometimes had passages referring to his love of the varied landscape of his native state of California, it still came as a surprise to many when, in his State of the Union address on January 22,...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
One aspect of Richard Nixon’s presidency that still has far-reaching consequences today is his effort to deal with the issues created by America’s consumption of steadily decreasing energy sources. At the start of the Administration, in 1969, this did not...
Apr 13, 2010 | News, Space, The New Nixon
The Kennedy Space Center is remembering the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission: The 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 is being celebrated on Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, At the time of the oxygen-tank explosion two days into the...
Apr 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The Nixon Library Docent Guild hosted their 16th annual geography award ceremony in the East Room at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Tuesday, honoring over 300 Orange County students who achieved perfect scores for accurately identifying the world’s...
Apr 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The FBI file of Pulitzer-winning columnist and Nixon White House speechwriter, the late William Safire, has become public. The Associated Press’s Jessica Gresko describes the contents: Some of the earliest material dates from 1969, when investigators did a background...
Apr 13, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
When I first came to Washington, D.C. to work in the White House of President Richard Nixon almost 40 years ago, you could count the number of women in the House and Senate on your two hands plus one toe. And, you wouldn’t have needed any additional digits for the...
