Nov 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Orange High School Concert Choir at Veteran’s Day ceremonies at the Nixon Library Today, Veterans Day, was originally established as a holiday to mark the day that World War I ended and, until 1954, went by the name Armistice Day. Ninety years have passed since...
Nov 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In honor of Veterans Day, New York Times film critic A. O. Scott devotes this week’s “Critic’s Choice” to Franklin N. Schaffner’s 1970 masterpiece Patton. The film won seven Academy Awards — including the Best Actor Oscar for George...
Nov 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nov 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the days before communications could be encrypted, code names were required to provide at least a minimal mask for the identity of the POTUS and FLOTUS and members of the first families. Now they’re mostly an anachronistic habit with no serious security...
Nov 10, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Nov 9, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Twenty years ago today —9 November 1989— the German Democratic Republic finally read the writing on the wall (literally and figuratively) and announced that open travel would be permitted between East and West Berlin and East and West Germany. This was the...
