Mar 24, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Thousands of Orange County youngsters and their teachers visited the Nixon Library on Wednesday for the 15th annual Orange County Children’s Water Education Festival. Brought to the Nixon Library by the leadership of Congressman Gary Miller, the two day event...
Mar 15, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Today, Pat Nixon would have turned 99. As was her custom, however, she would have marked the occasion tomorrow – on St. Patrick’s Day. As to why, her father, Will Ryan, once explained it to her brother, Bill: “Well, she was there in the morning, my St. Patrick’s...
Mar 15, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Memorial services 11:30 am, Sunday, March 20 at the Nixon Library The Guild is mourning the loss of one of our founding Docents Alice Armstrong. Alice was a member of the Guild from the opening of the Library in 1990. She was a founding Docent, charter member and life...
Mar 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Nearly 4,000 packed the Nixon Library for the celebration of the Girl Scouts’ and First Lady Pat Nixon’s 99th birthdays. In keeping with this year’s theme of “Celebrating Differences,” Orange County area scouts set up interactive booths...
Mar 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated...
Mar 11, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
“The road not traveled is always smoother,” former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told a packed audience at the Nixon Library Wednesday evening during his first West Coast public appearance since the release of his new memoir, Known and Unknown. Like many of his...