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In Memory of Judy Lucas
The Docent Guild has lost its First Lady Judy Lucas. Judy personified the definition of a lady. She was a woman of refinement and gentle manners. Judy was a member of the Docent Guild for eleven years. She was very active in the leadership of the Guild serving as...
Video: RN’s 98th Birthday Celebration
General Don Hughes, longtime friend of the Nixon Family, and Military Assistant to President -and Vice President - Nixon gave the annual Nixon Legacy lecture at the Nixon Library where over one thousand visitors came to celebrate Richard Nixon's 98th Birthday on...
Presidential Gifts for Valentine’s Day
Now through February 14 enjoy special deals on all Valentine gifts including autographed books, premier Ann Hand Jewelry, Commander-in-Chief hats, Presidential office souvenirs and much more!
Just Released: “The Day Elvis Met Nixon”
The Day Elvis Met Nixon, a first hand account of Elvis Presley's historic meeting with President Nixon, has just been published by the Richard Nixon Foundation and is now available online (http://store.nixonfoundation.org). Released on the anniversary of Elvis's 76th...
Richard Nixon’s New Year’s Resolutions
As the hours count down and we get ready to face 2011, the inevitable question arises of what our New Year's resolutions should be - or if we should make any. I have found, over a few decades, that just saying resolutions aloud never gets them to stick in one's mind...
Who Saved Soviet Jewry?
The December 9th release of additional Nixon White House presidential documents and tapes produced the usual response. As has become customary, brief excerpts of the tapes – excerpts that invariably show President Nixon and members of his administration in the most...
Peter Peterson to Receive Top Finance Award
American financier Pete Peterson will receive the John C. Whitehead Award from the American Museum of Finance for his achievement and leadership in the field of finance, as well as his distinct service in the public sector, including formidable terms as President...
Kissinger: Emigration Existed Because of Realist Actions
In the Washington Post, RN's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - in response to Michael Gerson's column - says that it was precisely the decisions of the Nixon White House that created the strategic framework that allowed Soviet Jews to emigrate: For someone who lost...
How RN Helped the Soviet Jews
In today's edition of the National Review, Conrad Black articulately points out how RN successfully secured the emigration of Soviet Jews, giving substantive context to an exchange Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had with the President in 1973: This was a...
Ben Stein on RN’s Support for Israel
On July 17, 2010, Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein - who keynoted the Library's 20th anniversary gala - destroyed charges of antisemitism calling RN the "savior of Israel" during the Yom Kippur War. "He's the best friend the World's Jews ever had," said Stein, "Only Nixon...