Jun 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At www.nixontapes.org, Luke Nichter of Tarleton State University (who was extensively quoted in the AP article Frank Gannon discusses below) takes a look at John Dean’s appearance at the Nixon Presidential Library last week. (This post also appears at History...
Jun 24, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Nixon Library has just released some 30,000 pages of new presidential records and 150 new tapes from January and February 1973. Among the many subjects covered are the end of the war in Vietnam. The New York Times, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times all turned...
Jun 23, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
When you get in these people when you…get these people in, say: “Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that” ah, without going into the details… don’t, don’t...
Jun 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Sunday is Father’s Day, and this year marks a century since Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, came up with the idea of making it a permanent holiday. There had been a commemoration of American fatherhood on July 5, 1908, at a church in Fairmont, West...
Jun 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In April of 1979, a week or so after the nuclear-near-disaster at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday Night Live did a sketch featuring Dan Akroyd as President Jimmy Carter. Playing on the idea that Carter had a background in engineering and...
Jun 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Shortly after becoming director of the Nixon Library in 2007, Dr. Timothy Naftali invited the nation’s press in to witness the removal of the Nixon Library’s Watergate exhibit. Declaring, “I can’t run a shrine,” he gleefully presided over the destruction of the...
