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RN’s Health Care Plan More Comprehensive Than Obama’s
All eyes have been on Washington in the past year as the parties debated President Barack Obama's shifting versions of national health care. On Tuesday, after a highly questionable series of parliamentary maneuvers, President Obama signed into "law" his health care...
The Children’s Water Festival arrives in Yorba Linda
More than 2,500 students from twenty Southern California cities and their teachers toured the Nixon Library Wednesday for the annual Children's Water Education Festival. It will continue tomorrow with the participation of an additional 2,500 students. Presented by...
The Economist On The Surcharge Proposal
The recent health-care bill that President Obama signed may have its similarities to the proposals President Nixon unsuccessfully presented to Congress in the early Seventies, but those are far from the only pages from the 37th Chief Executive's playbook that are...
Got A Condo Made O’Stone-a
Last night I read Born Standing Up, actor Steve Martin's account of the seventeen years he spent making his way up the ladder of standup comedy. It's a rather worthwhile book. In well-written prose, replete with many funny passages, Martin describes the process by...
3.24.70
Forty years ago today, RN issued a Statement About Desegregation of Elementary and Secondary Schools. The almost 17,000-word document surveyed the the issue beginning with the first Brown decision in 1954. Clearly, and in very plain language, the President surveyed...
The Missing Moon Rocks
The fortieth anniversary last year of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 stirred interest in the mineral artifacts brought back by that mission and the five others that reached the lunar surface. President Nixon, in the months after Apollo 11's return, sent a number...
But Where’s The Silent E?
"Behind every Watergate there's a Milhous." - Words on a button, manufactured sixteen years before The Simpsons premiered, seen at the Watergate exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC.
C-SPAN’s Video Library
For a number of weeks C-SPAN, the venerable public-affairs cable channel founded by Brian Lamb, has had up a beta version of its video library, featuring many hours of its programming over the last 30-odd years. This week the site put up the full-scale version of the...
Nickels, Noses, And The Nation
After several anxious days of waiting—watching out my office window for the faithful U. S. Postal truck—I finally received mine. Have you gotten yours? I sure hope so, because there isn’t much time—We The People—134 million households of us—have a deadline. In fact,...
Pelosi-land
The Economist returns to a point that Frank Gannon made a couple of years ago: WHEN Nancy Pelosi moved to San Francisco, she struggled to find somewhere to live. For months, and with four small children, she lodged with her mother-in-law. So she was relieved when she...