Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This week Theodore “Ted” Sorensen, who was John F. Kennedy’s closest aide from 1953 until the president’s assassination a decade later, appeared at Canada’s University of Western Ontario in London to speak about his career and to promote...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There has been quite a lot of coverage this week of President Obama’s early-morning journey on Thursday to Dover Air Force Base to witness the arrival of the remains of eighteen American servicemen killed in Afghanistan, and to meet with their families. At her...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
During a recent visit to the Nixon Library, I had a discussion with several people about the potential for a podcast, something designed to highlight the events at the library, as well as the larger work of the Nixon Foundation. We determined to use the recent visit...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Oct 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
RN sometimes used bad language in private, but what Governor Schwarzenegger did recently was much worse. To get back at a legislator who had taunted him, he inserted an obscene acrostic into a veto message for one of the legislator’s bills. This act was not a...
Oct 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At 7 PM tonight in Yorba Linda, the Nixon Library will welcome Elvis Presley’s friend and bodyguard Sonny West, who will talk about —and sign copies of— his book Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business. White House photographer Ollie Atkins captured a...