St. Patrick’s Day 1969

Gift exchange: Irish Ambassador to the United States William Fay pins a shamrock on RN’s lapel, while RN presents to Fay a Waterford Crystal Vase with an etching of the White House. On St. Patrick’s Day 1969,  in a ceremony with Irish Ambassador to the...

Fox News: What Would Nixon Do On Health Care?

Fox News contributor Ellen Ratner at the Fox Forum: No one thought that President Nixon was a liberal in fact I spent much of my youthful years demonizing him and remember exactly where I was the day he resigned. I was cheering. However, like most of us humans, Nixon...

3.17.1969

RN’s St. Patrick’s Day message: IT HAS been said that on Saint Patrick’s Day everyone is an Irishman. As one whose ancestors came to America from Ireland, I wish all the Irish–including those who are Irish for only today–a happy and...

3.16.10

Pat Nixon was born ninety-eight years ago today, on 16 March 1912. My mother was born near midnight on March 16th, 1912, in a miner’s shack high in the mountains of eastern Nevada.  Although it was almost spring the nights in the copper boom town of Ely were frosty,...