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James J. Kilpatrick, 1920-2010
Yesterday, James Jackson Kilpatrick, whose journalistic career spanned nearly seven decades from 1941 until his final columns last year, died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, of congestive heart failure. He was ten weeks short of his ninetieth...
Video: First Lady Pat Nixon Graces the East Room
Four Presidents have participated in the Nixon Foundation’s Meet the Presidents series, but never a First Lady – until First Lady Pat Nixon graced the East Room at the Nixon Library today. She spoke to children and audience members about her rise from poverty to...
A Bruised Knee
Fifty years ago today, while campaigning in Greensboro, North Carolina, RN bruised his knee on a car door. Normally, such an event would go unnoticed in everyday life, much less the grand drama of a presidential race. In this case, though, the bruise led to a serious...
Organizing the President’s Travels
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA proclaims the blue and white livery of Air Force One, majestically swooping low over Peking’s airport and touching down on the runway. The President and First Lady appear at the doorway and wave, the presidential seal at their backs and an...
8.16.1972 – RN Provides Disaster Relief
As President Nixon and his campaign team prepared for his reelection bid in the spring of 1972, a small tropical storm was winding its way north from the Yucatan Peninsula. By June 17, the storm had increased dramatically in intensity and speed, tearing its way...
Historical Literacy and Futurama
In The Guardian (UK), Mark Lawson writes that he used to think that television was bad for historical literacy. Recently, though, while watching an episode of Glee, I wondered if this theory was entirely right and asked a passing 11-year-old to list all the US...
8.10.1973 – RN Signs Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act
On August 10, 1973, President Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act, hopeful that it would not only encourage farmers to expand and produce at full capacity, but also help halt rising inflation levels. The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act set...
41 Years Ago – RN Unveils Family Assistance Plan
In a nationally televised address on August 8, 1969, RN unveiled a series of domestic policies aimed at combating welfare dependency, alleviating poverty, and making government a more effective and responsible actor at solving America's urban crisis. The center-piece...
What They’re Saying About “Going Home to Glory”
Michael Korda, author of Ike: An American Hero, comments on David and Julie Eisenhower's new book Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969: "David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower's GOING HOME TO A GLORY is a wonderfully satisfying book, at...
Video: The Road to Peking went through Bucharest
While President Nixon’s visit to Romania in 1969 was not his first to that country, it was the first visit by a President of the United States to Romania, the first to a socialist country, and the first to a state of Eastern Europe. Two years prior, having had his...