Feb 14, 2023 | Nixon Today, The Nixons
“There can never be another like you”— Love Letters Between the Newlywed Nixons On Valentine’s Day when many people are celebrating their own love stories, the love story of Richard and Pat Nixon is full of inspiration. Richard Nixon and Pat Ryan first met in 1937...
Oct 14, 2022 | News, Pat Nixon, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons
“Hollywood movie plots cannot compare to their real love story.” That’s how historian Heath Hardage Lee described the relationship between Richard and Pat Nixon as the featured guest on The White House Historical Association’s History Happy Hour. The virtual program...
Sep 23, 2016 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket...
Mar 16, 2016 | Pat Nixon, The Nixons
The United States Mint joined the Richard Nixon Foundation to celebrate the release of the Presidential $1 Coin and First Spouse Gold Coin struck in honor of the 37th President and First Lady. The event commemorated Mrs. Nixon’s 104th birthday and featured...
Aug 19, 2015 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV, The Nixons
[youtube https://youtu.be/2zB2rq1nBiw] August 19, 2015: The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. Americas First Families are unknowable in many ways. The Residence reveals daily life in the...
Jun 15, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The Nixons
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is one of the most important pieces of environmental policy passed in the 20th century. Often referred to as the Magna Carta of Environmental Policy, it laid out a uniform national approach to environmental issues. Its...