News
Ed Nixon, Congressman Miller Highlight Memorial Day
Over 2,000 commemorated the Memorial Day holiday at the Nixon Library, where events started with a plaque dedication at RN's Birthplace by the Native Sons of the Golden West, a fraternal organization dedicated to preserving the history of California. The Native Sons...
Campaign Staffs
Fifty years ago today, the New York Times reported: In a hotel suite almost as hard to find as Vice President Nixon when he wants to hide out, his campaign staff has bloomed into a highly personal organization for the 1960 Presidential campaign. The staff will shortly...
Notable and Quotable, or the Journalist and the Governor
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible[...] “He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them...
David Ginsburg, 1912-2010: The Last New Dealer
Art Linkletter, who died yesterday at the venerable age of 97, was not the only nonagenarian to pass away this week who played a significant role in the life of President Nixon. On Sunday a man died in Arlington, Virginia, who was, rather incredibly, three months...
At the Center of Things
Among the guests at the recent Nixon Center's 2010 National Policy Conference in Washington were a Yorba Linda contingent: Nixon Foundation Board Chairman Kris Elftmann and his wife Linda, and Board member Hubert Perry. As an undergraduate in the early 1930s, Mr....
Video: Uncovering the Mysteries of Watergate
Former Nixon Domestic Council official, Watergate defense lawyer, and author Geoff Shepard presented the fourth Richard Nixon Legacy Forum Monday. Shepard spoke about the conventional wisdom of Watergate, five alternative perspectives on how the controversy unfolded,...
Geoff Shepard Now Taking Questions for Watergate Forum
Geoff Shepard - former Domestic Council Official, author and Watergate Defense lawyer -- is now taking questions for discussion on the mysteries of Watergate. Submit your questions by email at [email protected]
The Mysteries of Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/hZIF0oSXBJE] May 24, 2010: Even forty years later, Watergate remains America's greatest political scandal. Dozens of books have been written by principal Watergate players; hundreds of books and articles have been written by various...
Kissinger Keynotes Washington Conference
President Nixon's National Security Adviser and Secretary of State addressed a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington Wednesday, May 19. His conversation with the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland was apart of a two day conference on America's foreign policy...
Domestic Policy Initiatives of The Nixon Years
President Nixon’s primacy in foreign affairs has long been acknowledged even by his harshest critics. But his domestic record has tended both to be overlooked as a result of the conventional wisdom -- particularly in the academy and the media -- that he was a...