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James Cavanaugh Joins the Nixon Foundation Board
Dr. James H. Cavanaugh was named to the Nixon Foundation board of directors last week. A successful businessman and influential expert on health care policy, Cavanaugh was a key adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. He is now a managing director of Health Care...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Speaking To Today’s Concerns
This afternoon, our President, in a rather self-conscious move evoking unfortunate memories of Jimmy Carter's 1979 effort at what we would now call "reset," that resulted in the infamous "malaise" speech, appeared at a "town hall" meeting - not in some picturesque...
Casa Romantica Plans Western White House Exhibit
From today's OC Register: San Clemente's Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens is seeking the public's help to gather memorabilia and personal memories from the city's "Western White House" period for an upcoming exhibit. "Nixon in San Clemente: The Western White...
The Elder Statesman
As the Presidential helicopter gradually lifted off the White House lawn on August 9, 1974, they said he was through. Most predicted that Richard Nixon would be forever out of the American political scene. He had been through a roller coaster ride of a presidency...
More About Kutler’s Petition For RN’s Grand Jury Testimony
The petition filed by historian Stanley Kutler and several historical and archival organizations with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, asking that President Nixon's 1975 grand jury testimony about Watergate be unsealed, has been the subject of...
One Who Has “Dared Greatly”
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives...
Historians Seek 1975’s Grand Jury Testimony
For eleven hours on June 23 and 24, 1975, President Nixon, ten months past his resignation and living in San Clemente, appeared before two members of a Federal grand jury and staff prosecutors of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and, under oath, answered...
Join the RN Alumni Association Today
Registration for the Nixon Foundation Alumni Directory is now available online! At only $25, sign in and stay in touch with friends and co-workers from the Nixon years. We will also forward you a hard copy of the first published Alumni Directory and send you updates...
Nixon Library Unveils “Treasures from the Vault”
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library has just unveiled its new special exhibit, "Treasures from the Vault," a trove of precious gifts given to President and First Lady Nixon from world leaders, foreign dignitaries and heads of state. The selection from a volume of...
Religion and the 1960 Election
Today was the 50th anniversary of JFK's famous address to Greater Houston Ministerial Association, in which he reaffirmed his belief in the separation of church and state. This occasion raises the question of whether his Catholicism help or hurt in his 1960 race...