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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...

On Monday, November 3, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon sat at his desk in the Oval Office as the clock crawled toward 9:30 p.m. He was reviewing the words he would momentarily share with the American people.  There wasn’t a Teleprompter in sight. Nixon instinctively...