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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...
Carl Burhanan on the President’s Helicopter
[youtube https://youtu.be/bbiahKCJBAo] April 19, 2010: Chief Warrant Officer Carl Burhanan, the first African American pilot of Army I, discusses traveling with President Nixon.
Gene Boyer on the Vietnam War and the President’s Helicopter
[youtube https://youtu.be/lo45hX7OFMI] April 19, 2010: Lt. Col. Gene Boyer, former Chief pilot of Army I, discusses the Vietnam War and his time traveling with President Nixon
7.12.1971 – RN Signs Emergency Employment Act
President Nixon signed the Emergency Employment Act on the 12th of July 1971. The act was aimed at alleviating the layoffs in the aerospace and defense related industries. The Emergency Employment Act would effectively create 150,000 jobs over the following two years...
7.11.1969 – RN Unveils Political Solution for Vietnam
Shortly after President Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam gave a speech proposing a fair political settlement in South Vietnam on July 11, 1969, President Nixon gave a statement in support of the South Vietnam leader’s plan to expedite peace in that “tortured land,” as...