Jul 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Здравствуйте!: RN and PN arrive in Moscow for what would be a tense and historic trip. Photograph by Howard Sochurek for Life magazine. Fifty years ago today, Bill Safire knocked down a barrier and shouted to RN’s military aide Don Hughes: "This way to the...
Jul 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In the Soviet Union in 1959, as on all of RN’s Vice Presidential diplomatic trips abroad beginning in 1953, PN continued to break ground by pursuing her own independent and substantive schedule. Her work was recognized by Life magazine with its 10 August...
Jul 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Say What?: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” As Neil Armstrong later observed: “I didn’t intentionally make an inane statement . . . certainly the ‘a’ was intended, because that’s the only way the statement makes any...
Jul 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Two triumphs of 20th Century American technology.
Jul 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A few minutes ago the fortieth anniversary arrived of the moment when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. For most American TV viewers that awe-inspiring night, the voice commenting on the images that were seen over the next several hours belonged to Walter...
Jul 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama welcomed the Apollo XI crew to the White House today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing On 5 November 1969, RN welcomed the Apollo XI crew on the South Lawn at the conclusion of their international goodwill tour that brought...
