Feb 14, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
By Chris Barber RN and Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall swearing in Walter E. Washington, accompanied by his wife, as Mayor of the District of Columbia. This week marks the 45th anniversary of President Nixon’s swearing-in of Walter E. Washington as Mayor of...
Feb 14, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
By Will Swift, author of the newly released Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage Click here for PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage The President and Mrs. Nixon walk on the beach in San Clemente. When Dick Nixon and...
Feb 12, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
By Chris Barber A portrait of President Nixon in the Oval Office. A bust of President Lincoln sets the background. To commemorate the 205th birthday of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, The New Nixon takes a look at the great figure and savior of the Union through...
Feb 11, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, Republican Party
The Nixons and Connallys at the Connally ranch in August 1972. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s appointment of John Connally as the United States’ sixty-first Secretary of the Treasury and the early stages of what, at least at the time and to...
Feb 8, 2014 | News, Pop Culture, The Nixons
Sunday, February 9, marks the 50th anniversary of the evening – also on a Sunday – when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collectively known as The Beatles, stepped onto the stage of CBS TV’s Ed Sullivan Show and, in less...
Feb 7, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
RN with Roy Wilkins speaking to the press in the Fish Room of the White House. On February 7, 1969, RN met with the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Roy Wilkins. Wilkins, known as the senior statesman of the...
