Mar 18, 2014 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The New Nixon
By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. In celebration of what would have been First Lady Pat Nixon’s 102nd birthday, let us remember some of her remarkable accomplishments as First Lady. – She was the most...
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 1, 2014 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Sports
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
Jan 29, 2014 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
Richard Nixon and the Creation of the Modern PresidencyNixon Legacy ForumFranklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, PAJanuary 29, 2014 An on-stage discussion featuring Andrew M. Rouse, Executive Director of President Nixon’s Advisory Council on Executive...
Jan 25, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift’s Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in...
Jan 20, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vice President Nixon
A version of this story ran Martin Luther King Day 2013: VP Nixon with MLK in 1957 “Let me say how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,” were the words of...
