Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Harry Robbins Haldeman, known professionally as H.R. Haldeman and to his friends, co-workers, and his President as “Bob,” was the Chief of Staff at Richard Nixon’s White House from January 20, 1969, until his resignation on April 30, 1973. The...
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Newspaper readers have their favorite sections. Everyone sees the headlines, but readers scatter after that: some to the comics, others to sports and still others straight to the obituaries and the weather. RN’s news summaries, however, offered a section unlike any...
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Print media often referred to the Daily News Summary as the most exclusive newspaper in the world. It was a fair description because they were written to please just one person, RN himself. They began during the 1968 primaries by Pat Buchanan, who chose articles “the...
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages – in spite of constant efforts to keep them shorter. Even though some went long, we were reminded that the President...
Apr 6, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The AP reports: Former U.S. agriculture secretary and University of Nebraska chancellor Clifford Hardin has died. The university confirmed Hardin passed away Sunday. He was 94. Hardin became chancellor in 1954 and then president when the University of Nebraska system...
Apr 6, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
I was a young man just a few months shy of my 30th birthday, the father of a 3-year-old girl, husband in a marriage struggling to stay intact, when a Staff Assistant to the President of the United States asked me if I would like to work at the White House preparing...
