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Remembering 9/11
[youtube https://youtu.be/INLttOrLhcI] September 11, 2010: Bronze Star presentation to the parents of Marine Cpl. Claudio Patino IV, a Yorba Linda resident killed in action in Afghanistan. Remarks by Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and RN Deputy Special...
President Nixon’s Bestsellers
As I write, the lead news story at Yahoo concerns one of the most keenly anticipated new books of the fall - George W. Bush's Decision Points, scheduled for November publication by Crown. This AP article, by Douglass K. Daniel, discusses the expectations in the...
RN and the Arts
In the 1960 campaign, the magazine Musical America sent the presidential candidates a brief questionnaire about arts policy. Fifty years ago today, RN replied: Our great lack today is not sources of subsidy or an honest desire to promote the arts, but a program for...
Robert Ingersoll, R.I.P.
Robert Ingersoll, former Chairman and CEO of manufacturer Borg-Warner and RN's U.S. Ambassador to Japan, passed away on August 22. He was 96: Mr. Ingersoll was chairman and chief executive of the Chicago-based Borg-Warner Corporation when President Richard M. Nixon...
Video: President Nixon Talks About His Early Life
Edward Nixon returned to the Nixon Library on Tuesday to portray his older brother and America's 37th President, Richard Nixon. Nixon told kids about his family's humble origins and growing up with his three older brothers in Whittier, California. "We may have been...
Meet the Presidents: Richard Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/IP5CGKzXRYI] August 31, 2010: Edward Nixon portrays his older brother and America's 37th President, Richard Nixon.
Nixon, Lincoln, Et Al Before the High Court
The other day I came across a column in the Oklahoma City Journal-Record by Tom Wolfe - not The Right Stuff's author, but a civil litigator practicing in that metropolis. Mr. Wolfe's column, occasioned by the recent swearing-in of Justice Elena Kagan, concerned a...
38 Years Ago – RN Honors Admiral John S. McCain II
On September 1, 1972, RN spoke at the retirement ceremony of Admiral John S. McCain II , Commander of U.S. Forces in the Pacific and father of future Arizona Senator and then Vietnam War POW John S. McCain III. Speaking without notes at Hickam Air Force Base in...
Nixon and Fiorina
Dan Morain of The Sacramento Bee writes of the connection between RN and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina: President Richard M. Nixon took office pledging to remake the U.S. Supreme Court and appointed four justices during his first term. If Nixon had served...
RN and Latino Americans
In describing the GOP split on the politics of immigration, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarette blames RN and the "Southern Strategy" (though no such strategy ever existed) as the first cause: For more than 40 years, since the advent of the "Southern strategy" in...