Salinger The Hero

It’s now been just over a week since word came of the death at age ninety-one of J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher In The Rye and Franny And Zooey. A lot has been written since then, much of it focusing on the comparative seclusion in which he spent...

The President’s Daily News Summary — Part III

Print media often referred to the Daily News Summary as the most exclusive newspaper in the world. It was a fair description because they were written to please just one person, RN himself.  They began during the 1968 primaries by Pat Buchanan, who chose articles “the...

The Great Conservationists

A Time Magazine story dated the first week of February 1969 illustrates how RN set the tone for his administration’s environmental agenda very early on: After his embroilment in the Nixon Administration’s only serious appointment hassle, Walter Hickel was...

The Domestic Council On Demand

The first of the Richard Nixon Legacy Forums, Domestic Policy Initiatives of the Nixon Years: Bringing Innovation and Progress to the American People is now available for viewers — free —  on demand:

Whittier College Students Study RN

A new political science class at Richard Nixon’s alma mater is the first at Whittier to study his early life, Presidency and years as a global statesman.  The class, “The Complex Legacy of Nixon,” took a Yorba Linda field trip January 23 to find out more...