Aug 16, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
The Orange County Register is showcasing Ed Nixon’s portrayal of his older brother and the 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon, the fifth president featured in the Foundation’s educational summer series, Meet the Presidents. President Richard...
Aug 10, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Dorothy Cox Donnelly – a key staff member to Congressman, Senator, and Vice President Nixon – has died. She was 99. In 1947, Donnelly starting serving as the freshman Congressman’s personal secretary in Washington, where she was a witness to his...
Aug 10, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
This week two columns at Bloomberg.com discuss different aspects of the economic initiatives President Nixon launched in August 1971, which produced changes in the American economy which still reverberate today. One is by Joseph J. Thorndike, a leading tax historian...
Aug 9, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Saturday, I registered to vote. Having turned 18 in May, and anxious to let myself be heard – officially, of course – in an election for the first time, I had been excited to register but just did not know how. Luckily, I ran into some activists in front of a local...
Aug 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On August 8 – the 42nd anniversary of President Nixon’s prime time address announcing his domestic policy – the National Archives and the Richard Nixon Foundation hosted New Federalism: Returning Power to the People, the 13th in a series of Nixon Legacy Forums....
Aug 7, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
The four words above would be familiar to many who were around in the summer and fall of 1972. They were emblazoned on countless buttons distributed by Republican campaign offices around the country to promote the thirty-seventh President’s re-election: in red...