May 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On May 13, 1958, while on a trip to Latin America, Vice President Richard M. Nixon found his limousine under attack by an angry mob in Caracas, Venezuela. The incident was so provocative that President Eisenhower ordered elements of the 101st Airborne Division to...
May 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Harry Benson is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, in his eighties, who has for close to sixty years been one of the most skilled personality photographers on the planet. He made his name in the ’50s with pictures of everyday life in his gritty native city and of...
May 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Written for the The Daily Caller. Do Republicans need to grow up — again? Shortly after Richard Nixon’s “last press conference” on the night of his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial race — when he uttered the infamous phrase, “you won’t have Nixon to kick...
May 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At The New York Times “Caucus” blog, Matt Bai compares Newt Gingrich to RN: [I]f Mr. Gingrich is looking for hopeful historical comparisons, the more apt one might be Richard Nixon. Unlike Mr. Reagan, who even in his lower moments retained a certain...
May 11, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Former Congressman and Richard Nixon campaign and administration official, Ambassador Robert Ellsworth passed away earlier this week. He was 84. Ellsworth served as a Special Assistant to the President from 1969 to 1971, before RN appointed him as Ambassador to the...
May 11, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
29th Commerce Secretary began her public service career in the Nixon White House leading efforts to appoint women to high-level government positions. YORBA LINDA, CALIFORNIA – The Richard Nixon Foundation is pleased to announce the election of the 29th Secretary...
