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A Historian’s Responsibility
Recently the New Yorker came out with allegations that Stephen Ambrose (famed WWII and Nixon Biographer) exaggerated his contact with Dwight Eisenhower, General of the Army and 34th President of the United States. {See: Raymer, Richard, “Channeling Ike,” The New...
Goodbye To All That
The Supreme Court announced this morning that visitors will no longer access the building by ascending the 44 marble steps steps and passing under the words “Equal Justice Under Law” to enter the great central hall through the massive bronze doors depicting the...
Henry Kissinger Conversation with Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland
[youtube https://youtu.be/q3kCEx1AxdE] May 2010: Henry Kissinger talks with Washington Post writer Jim Hoagland about international affairs and President Nixon's legacy.
What Would Buckley Think About The Tea Party?
Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation, author of the standard biography of Barry Goldwater (and of a new book about William F. Buckley Jr.) argues that Buckley would have endorsed it: Some of you may be saying, “But wait, wasn’t Bill Buckley an elitist, the ultimate...
President Nixon And Arbor Day
I suspect that Arbor Day, as it was when I was a child, is a holiday most familiar in the elementary schools of America, since it does not involve grownups getting the day off from work, except in Nebraska (not a state famous for its orchards and forests). On a...
The Gulf Oil Disaster And Memories of 1969
As I observed recently at TNN, it was a large oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, about a week after Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 1969, that focused the nation’s attention on pollution and ecology in a dramatic fashion, and helped spur the...
PJB – C-SPAN – 5.2.10 – NOON ET
Pat Buchanan will be the guest tomorrow on C-SPAN's monthly three hour interview and call in show In Depth. Photo: Back in the day: PJB in his EOB office. RN recruited the youngster ---his first hire for his new presidential campaign--- in 1967 from the editorial page...
Again with the “Secret Plan”
In the Huffington Post, an environmental activist repeats an urban legend: In 1968 Richard Nixon campaigned on his “secret plan to end the war in Viet Nam”. Of course if he TOLD you the plan, you wouldn’t have to elect him so he was keeping it close to the vest....
Yorba Linda Via iPhone: April 2010
RN Birthplace and Reflecting Pool with Visiting Mallard Library Courtyard Courtyard Colonnade The Pat Nixon Rose (1972) in the First Lady’s Rose Garden 22 April 2010
Interview With Christopher DeMuth On RN’s Green Policy
On the Fortieth Anniversary of Earth Day, the Nixon Foundation and Nixon Presidential Library co-hosted their third Richard Nixon Legacy Forum. The panel of Nixon Administration environmental policy officials - Christopher DeMuth, William Ruckelshaus, and John...