Jun 23, 2021 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today
His Excellency Koji Tomita, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, spoke at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on June 17, 2021, to mark the 50th anniversary of the far-reaching and impactful 1971 Reversion of Okinawa Agreement, which was negotiated,...
Jun 12, 2021 | Nixon Today
Tricia Nixon remembers her White House wedding, 50 years later Fifty years after her stunning and well-remembered White House Rose Garden wedding, I spoke exclusively with former first daughter Patricia Nixon Cox to reminisce about that magical day. By Jennifer...
Jul 8, 2020 | Nixon Today
Today the White House recognized the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s “Special Message to the Congress on Indian Affairs,” which served to herald a new era in Federal Indian policy: Indian Self-Determination. The Presidential Message on the 50th Anniversary...
Jun 25, 2020 | Nixon Today
Fifty years ago this Sunday, America responded to a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Peru that killed 70,000, injured 50,000, and left 800,000 homeless, a global humanitarian disaster unlike any in recent memory. On June 28, 1970, the First Lady boarded an...
Jun 18, 2020 | Nixon Today
Fifty years ago today, the National Park Service hosted a novel activities fair for Washington, D.C.’s lucky residents. More than one thousand youngsters and their families participated in martial arts training, chopped and molded woodwork, listened and danced to...
May 1, 2020 | Nixon Today
President Nixon’s Historic Visit to the Lincoln Memorial May 9, 1970 An Impromptu Meeting In the early hours of May 9, 1970, as many as 100,000 protesters gathered in Washington for a demonstration against the Kent State killings and the Cambodian incursion....