Feb 19, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
The Nixon Foundation has just released its inaugural 2011 Legacy and Vision newsletter filled with memories from 2010, information on upcoming events, and the announcement of new plans for the Foundation’s commitment to preserving and communicating the legacy of...
Feb 17, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Author, commentator and former Special Assistant to President Nixon Bruce Herschensohn reported on the recent sequence of events in Egypt Tuesday. His talk in the East Room focused on what President Nixon would have done, if confronted with a similar power struggle...
Feb 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Newsweek’s newest columnist, British historian Niall Ferguson, writes that President Obama’s national security team was caught totally by surprise during the recent sequence of events in Egypt, a crisis that President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger would have...
Feb 14, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
RN talks about the first time he met Patricia Ryan: One day in 1938, Mrs. Lilly Baldwin, the director of the local amateur theatre group, telephoned me to ask if I would like to play the part of a prosecuting attorney in their upcoming production of Ayn Rand’s...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
As I listened to the well earned and much deserved tributes paid this past weekend to the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan on his centennial, and thought about RN’s coming 100th birthday in 2013, I recalled this anecdote from Reagan’s memoir: In 1962, while...
Feb 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan’s shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN’s direction. He...
