Jan 6, 2014 | News, The New Nixon, The Nixons
The following is an excerpt from Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage written by Will Swift, a leading presidential biographer. Will Swift’s website is www.willswift.com You can see more about the book at:...
Dec 28, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
On December 28, 1973, RN pledged to protect the nation’s endangered species from extinction. The move was part of his sweeping environmental agenda which included the National Environmental Protection Act and the creation of the EPA, the Clean Air and Clean...
Dec 21, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
[easingsliderlite] Photos of RN meeting with Elvis Presley and band members in the Oval Office. On this day 43 years ago, Rock n’ Roll royalty met the leader of the free world–two iconic figures, different in trade but similar in spirit–in an iconic...
Dec 18, 2013 | News, Sports, The New Nixon
Documents from the archives of President Nixon’s personal file collection reveal the President’s personal interest in football fatalities and methods towards reducing such incidents, particularly as they occurred in interscholastic high school competition where...
Dec 17, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Post-Presidential Years
Earlier this month, an article by Anneta Konstantinides at ABC News’s site considered the question of what President Obama might do after he leaves office on January 20, 2017. The President recently joked that he might go to work for ESPN, but on a more...
Dec 13, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
With Christmas a mere twelve days away, we are reminded of an American Christmas tradition that dates back to the 1920s when Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States: the annual lighting of the national Christmas tree. We are also reminded of President...