Feb 21, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today
In the new Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit Patriot. President. Peacemaker at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, two bronze statues of Richard Nixon and Chou en-Lai compliment a mural of Air Force One after it touched down in Peking on February 21,1972. The...
Nov 3, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today
Over at the website of the Philippine Star, columnist Carmen N. Pedrosa reminds her countrymen that China is the pre-eminent economic presence in today’s Pacific Rim, and that American politicians, rather than blaming the PRC for all America’s financial...
Oct 27, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Presidency, Republican Party, The Nixons
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation’s capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His...
Oct 21, 2012 | In Memoriam, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, Republican Party, The New Nixon, Watergate
Just before dawn this morning, former Senator George McGovern died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of ninety. Senator McGovern had been in gradually declining health for the last year or so, and three months ago had the bitter task of burying his son Steven,...
Sep 24, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon, The Nixons
I had read on this Website that David and Julie Eisenhower would appear at the National Book Festival on Washington DC’s Mall Saturday, September 22. So I went over to say hi and to get them to sign their book “Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D....
Sep 4, 2012 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
On September 4, 1970, President Nixon — on the advice of his wife — issued a presidential proclamation mandating that the American flag that flies high over the White House is to fly 24 hours a day, seven days a week — regardless of whether or not...
