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David and Julie Eisenhower Discuss New Book on Ike
[youtube https://youtu.be/XVomOpavxvY] November 11, 2010: RNs daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Ikes grandson, David Eisenhower spoke on Veterans Day about their newly released book, 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,...
Nixon in 1966
The GOP resurgence calls to mind the 1966 midterm, another successful year for the party. RN was a big part of that success, as Warren Weaver wrote in The New York Times on November 13 of that year: The political equivalent of the batting championship for the 1966...
The Night Nixon Moved America
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...
Is Obama In 2010 Like Nixon In 1970?
This morning the Washington Post published a column stirring a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, as the hours tick by before the voters decide the elections that constitute the first major referendum on the Barack Obama presidency. It was co-written by Douglas...
Doing The Time Warp Again (And Again)
Tomorrow, on Halloween, a few minutes after 6 am, on a major cable channel, the thirty-seventh president of the United States will intone the passage of his August 8, 1974 speech to the nation that starts, "I am not a quitter. To leave office before my term is...
Video: William Voegeli on America’s Welfare State
Claremont McKenna, Henry Salvatori Center Visiting Scholar William Voegeli was at the Nixon Library on Thursday to discuss his new book, "Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State," a close look at the current state of American dependence on food stamps and...
William Voegeli Discusses the Problems of the Welfare System
[youtube https://youtu.be/3O1PwkJ2bAg] October 28, 2010: Claremont McKenna, Henry Salvatori Center Visiting Scholar William Voegeli was a the Nixon Library to discuss his new book, "Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State," a close look at the current state of...
10.28.1972 – RN’s ‘One America’ Radio Address
“Today,” President Nixon began, “there are some who say that that [American] spirit is dead – that we no longer have the strength of character, idealism, and faith we once had.” That was October 1972; this is October 2010. America was in the midst of a deciding...
10.27.1970 – RN Signs Comprehensive Anti-Drug Act
This week is Red Ribbon Week, a national week of awareness in America about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. While it is true that Red Ribbon Week did not officially come into being until the mid-1980s, in a coincidental twist, President Richard Nixon signed the...
Whittier College Alum Discusses Nixon Legacy
From Sandra Molina of the Whittier Daily News: WHITTIER - Geoff Shepard is the remaining living individual with the most experience involved in the intricacies of Richard Nixon's Watergate defense. He served five years in the Nixon White House, having joined the...