RN’s Transformative Civil Rights Record

Activist and all around divisive figure Earl Ofari Hutchinson offers readers his latest tirade at the HuffPo: On the campaign trail in 1968, Nixon lambasted his Democratic opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, for the failed Great Society programs and big...

Sending The News To China

This article is Part II of a series on how RN received the 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...

Obama To Iran = Nixon To China? A Dissenting Opinion

In the palmy days of a year ago, when, as every comics collector knows, President Obama was expected to personally assist Spiderman and other superheroes along with his usual duties, one of his superpowers, according to our best and brightest liberal pundits, was...

Reminiscing About RN and EP

“Picture Of Nixon And Elvis Worth A Thousand Words,” reads the headline in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, and, sure enough, the article by Faye Fiore, the paper’s Washington reporter, that appears below it spends about a thousand words (or...

Preparing President Nixon’s Daily News Summary

This article is Part I of a series on how RN received the 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...

Orange County’s Own

From an OC Register reader via staff writer Jessica Tyrell: There is no denying that Richard M. Nixon was one of Orange County’s own. Born in a small, wood-frame house in Yorba Linda, alumnus of Fullerton Union High School. He was a regular American kid, working...