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Toasts to President and Mrs. Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/wTYKDf7vS1Y] July 17, 2010: Nixon Foundation Board Member Maureen Nunn and California Congressman Gary Miller toast President and Mrs. Nixon at a luncheon in the First Lady's honor during the Nixon Library's 20th Anniversary weekend.
Video: How Will RN Be Remembered?
Continuing the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, a Nixon Legacy Forum on President Nixon’s whole legacy was held in the Nixon Library Theater. How Will Richard Nixon be Remembered: The Legacy of the 37th President...
Homecoming at La Casa Pacifica
Nixon family, friends, administration alumni, and Foundation supporters gathered at the President and First Lady's home in San Clemente on Friday evening for an unforgettable poolside dinner and anecdotes from those who knew them best. Allergan and Roger's Gardens...
Nixon Library In The OC Register
This weekend marks the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Richard Nixon Library, and the Orange County Register today devotes three articles to it. In one article, reporter Jessica Terrell describes the events planned to mark the occasion this weekend,...
41 Years Ago – Apollo XI
The historical launch of Apollo 11, a NASA project to land the first humans on the moon and return them safely to Earth, occurred on July 16, 1969, at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:32 AM EST. On the eve of the launch, President Nixon expressed to the Apollo 11...
Nixon Family, Vietnam Hero Open Library’s 20th Anniversary
Visitors came to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Nixon at the opening of the Nixon Library's 20th Anniversary Friday, as daughter Tricia Nixon Cox laid a wreath at their memorial sites of her parents. Cox was escorted by the President's younger brother Ed...
7.15.1971 – RN Accepts Invitation to China
Although President Nixon’s speech on the 15th of July, 1971, only lasted three and a half minutes, it produced one of the greatest diplomatic surprises of the century. He began his speech in a Burbank, California, television studio at precisely 7:30pm. The purpose was...
George Shultz and the Reagan White House
PBS will be airing the second and third episodes of a documentary on the Reagan White House seen through the eyes of former Secretary of State George Shultz the two following Mondays. Shultz served as Secretary of Labor, Director of OMB, and Secretary of the Treasury...
George Steinbrenner 1930-2010
Legendary Yankee owner, entrepreneur and President Nixon's good friend George Steinbrenner died this morning. He was 80. In 1973, Steinbrenner purchased the Bronx Bombers and over the next thirty-six years, brought them to the pinnacle of America's pastime, racking up...
7.13.1969 – President Nixon Confronts America’s Drug Problem
In a special message to Congress on the 14th of July 1969, President Nixon expressed his concerns regarding the nation’s ever rising number of drug addicts and crime rate. Throughout the 1960s, the abuse of drugs had grown from a local police problem to a threat to...