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Forty Years On – Apollo XIII
The Kennedy Space Center is remembering the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission: The 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 is being celebrated on Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, At the time of the oxygen-tank explosion two days into the...
Docents Hold 16th Annual Geography Awards
The Nixon Library Docent Guild hosted their 16th annual geography award ceremony in the East Room at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Tuesday, honoring over 300 Orange County students who achieved perfect scores for accurately identifying the world's...
Hope For All C Students
The FBI file of Pulitzer-winning columnist and Nixon White House speechwriter, the late William Safire, has become public. The Associated Press’s Jessica Gresko describes the contents: Some of the earliest material dates from 1969, when investigators did a background...
The Unlikely Champion of Advancing Equality For Women
When I first came to Washington, D.C. to work in the White House of President Richard Nixon almost 40 years ago, you could count the number of women in the House and Senate on your two hands plus one toe. And, you wouldn’t have needed any additional digits for the...
Smells Like San Clemente Spirit
A few weeks after the 37th President boarded Air Force One for his last trip as President, David Bowie stood in a studio in Philadelphia and asked the country's young Americans, "do you remember your President Nixon?" Not long after that, Neil Young, recording...
New Book On Media Myths
W. Joseph Campbell is a professor at American University School of Communications. Before he entered academia he spent 20 years as a journalist, often traveling and working abroad (in the days when major American newspapers and magazines could afford to send a fair...
OC Register: Nixon library gets first federal director
Cindy, Arora, the OC Register: YORBA LINDA – Cold War historian Timothy Naftali was officially appointed as the first federal director to lead the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace into its new role as a national presidential library. U.S. Archivist Allen...
He Will Be Missed
Early this morning, the world was shaken with the news that Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria were killed when their plane crashed while attempting to land amid thick fog in Western Russia. Ninety-seven people were killed in the crash, including...
The Office Of The President
President Nixon organized his White House into three functional areas: The Office of the President, the National Security Council and the Domestic Council. Each President makes his own decisions on how he wants his White House to operate. There have been seven...
Anatoly F. Dobrynin, RIP
Yesterday, the death of Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, the Soviet Union’s ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986, was announced in Moscow. He was 90. Few diplomats served as long in Washington as Dobrynin. (One who served longer was Ernest Jaakson, who was...