Mar 23, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
Former members of the Nixon White House staff discuss First Lady Pat Nixon’s role on the 1972 trip to the People’s Republic of China. By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. As Michelle Obama makes her...
Feb 8, 2014 | News, Pop Culture, The Nixons
Sunday, February 9, marks the 50th anniversary of the evening – also on a Sunday – when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collectively known as The Beatles, stepped onto the stage of CBS TV’s Ed Sullivan Show and, in less...
Jan 9, 2014 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon Today, Nixon TV, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
[youtube https://youtu.be/FGxslFyS07U] January 11, 2014: Author Dr. Will Swift discusses the marriage of President and First Lady Pat Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
Jan 6, 2014 | News, The New Nixon, The Nixons
The following is an excerpt from Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage written by Will Swift, a leading presidential biographer. Will Swift’s website is www.willswift.com You can see more about the book at:...
Sep 21, 2013 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the 61st 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...
Jun 7, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, Library & Foundation, News Media, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Republican Party, The New Nixon, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
RN and PN with Walter and Leonore Annenberg at La Casa Pacifica in 1969. No it would not, on two counts; first, that it was RN’s diplomatic appointment of Annenberg that began his foreign service and second that it was RN who, of course, opened the U.S. and western...
