Jan 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This weekend on C-SPAN3, there will be two reruns of a 90-minute program taped in 1995, in which former New York Times reporter and columnist Tom Wicker discusses the thirty-seventh President. (Wicker’s 1991 book One Of Us is, along with William Safire’s...
Jan 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Photo: RN’s daughter Tricia Nixon Cox and son-in-law Edward F. Cox pictured with La Casa Pacifica owner Gavin Herbert and Family at the dedication of the Pat Nixon Rose Garden on January 8, 2010.
Jan 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In the old West, when the boys played poker at the saloon, or wherever, along with the cards, chips, money, and various beverages, the table was also adorned with a knife–one with a buckhorn handle. The knife was moved from place to place, depending on the person...
Jan 5, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Saturday marks the 97th birthday of President Nixon, and the day before that is the momentous 75th anniversary of the day that Elvis Aron Presley (and, briefly, his twin brother Jesse Garon) entered this world. At the end of the year, four days before Christmas, will...
Jan 4, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In the Daily Mirror section, the LA Times’ resident archivist Larry Harnisch takes a look at Vice President Nixon’s record setting flight aboard an American Airlines 707 from Los Angeles to Baltimore fifty years ago today. It took no longer than 3 hours...
Jan 3, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
With the coming of a New Year we are again reminded that on January 1, 1959, now 51 years ago, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rolled into Havana and established a Communist government in the Western Hemisphere. Castro is now enjoying his senior status as a thorn...
