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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,...

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...

"[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...

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...

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,...

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...

Earlier this month Charles McDowell, who was on the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1949 until 1998, died at the age of 84.  For most of his career McDowell was the paper's Washington correspondent, and for 44 of those years he also produced a nationally...

ANNOUNCEMENT FROM RON WALKER, CHAIRMAN RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION Dear Friends of the Nixon Foundation: I am pleased to announce that at its annual meeting on November 11, the Board of Directors of the Richard Nixon Foundation selected long time Nixon library executive...

David and Julie Eisenhower are interviewed in this Washington Post feature for their new book Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969. In 1969, Richard Nixon was eager to spend time at the Catoctin Mountains retreat reserved...