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Video: Mike Huckabee Returns to Yorba Linda
On Sunday, Former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News host Mike Huckabee spoke before a packed East Room at the Nixon Library, discussing the current state of the union, the results of the midterm election and what it means for the future of conservatism in...
Gov. Mike Huckabee at the Nixon Library
[youtube https://youtu.be/xiZFdW1L2mc] November 28, 2010: Former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News host Mike Huckabee discusses the current state of the union and the conservative principles that should be applied to get America back on course. After the lecture...
Helen Boehm – RIP
Helen Boehm, the well known porcelain sculptor, died last week. She was 89. Dubbed the "Princess of Porcelain," her sculptures can be found in the estates and palaces of foreign dignitaries and heads of state, and have been the mainstay of Presidential gift giving...
Huang Hua, 1913-2010
Huang Hua, the Chinese diplomat who helped spearhead talks that lead to President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing died Wednesday. He was 97. Huang served as Ambassador to Egypt and Canada, and following the re-establishment of ties with the United States,...
Happy Thanksgiving from the Nixon Foundation
RN's 1969 Thanksgiving Proclamation: On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving..." This was the year of the battle of Gettysburg and of other major...
The President and the King
In The Smithsonian, Peter Carlson recounts the famous 1970 meeting between RN and Elvis Presley. He quotes Egil Krogh's notes: "I'm on your side," Elvis told Nixon, adding that he'd been studying the drug culture and Communist brainwashing. Then he asked the...
Historian Discusses David and Julie’s New Book on Ike
"[I]t's been some time since a work as nuanced, instructive and fascinating as Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, has appeared," writes Carl Sferrazza Anthony this morning in The Huffington Post. Mr. Anthony, a former editor...
A Five-Star Book: Going Home To Glory
The snow had fallen in massive quantities the night before and the temperature had plummeted to single digits. And the man who had provided steady and unruffled guidance to the United States of America during a potentially turbulent time, likely found himself watching...
Nixon, the Zombie Slayer
The New York Times reports: Last spring, Seth Grahame-Smith scored a best seller with “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” in which the 16th president slashes away at legions of undead political enemies. Now, another president is enjoying some hot paranormal action,...
Aram Bakshian On “Going Home To Glory”
David and Julie Eisenhower's book about the last years of his grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower, Going Home To Glory, continues to receive highly positive reviews. The most recent is in this morning's Washington Times, by Aram Bakshian Jr., speechwriter to three...