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A President’s Time
On the day he was inaugurated to his second term, President Nixon gave members of the White House staff a desk diary covering the four years of that term. Each day indicated how many days were remaining before his “Four More Years” came to a close. On the cover page...
RN: The Law And Order Candidate
Daniel Henninger in today's Wall Street Journal: After the Supreme Court's restrictive police-search decisions in the 1960s, Richard Nixon rode "law and order" into the White House in 1968. Liberals got into trouble during the law and order years because their views...
St. Patrick’s Day 1969
Gift exchange: Irish Ambassador to the United States William Fay pins a shamrock on RN's lapel, while RN presents to Fay a Waterford Crystal Vase with an etching of the White House. On St. Patrick's Day 1969, in a ceremony with Irish Ambassador to the United States...
Fox News: What Would Nixon Do On Health Care?
Fox News contributor Ellen Ratner at the Fox Forum: No one thought that President Nixon was a liberal in fact I spent much of my youthful years demonizing him and remember exactly where I was the day he resigned. I was cheering. However, like most of us humans, Nixon...
3.17.1969
RN's St. Patrick's Day message: IT HAS been said that on Saint Patrick's Day everyone is an Irishman. As one whose ancestors came to America from Ireland, I wish all the Irish--including those who are Irish for only today--a happy and memorable Saint Patrick's Day....
3.16.10
Pat Nixon was born ninety-eight years ago today, on 16 March 1912. My mother was born near midnight on March 16th, 1912, in a miner’s shack high in the mountains of eastern Nevada. Although it was almost spring the nights in the copper boom town of Ely were frosty,...
New Report: Nixon Cancer Initiative Caused Decline In Mortality Rates
According to a report recent released from the American Cancer Society, there has been a precipitous decline since RN made cancer a national priority in 1971: Cancer mortality has declined since initiation of the "war on cancer," in 1971, an American Cancer Society...
“At The Age Of 9, I Decided I Was For Richard Nixon”
The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt of Karl Rove's new book Courage and Consequence: At the age of 9, I decided I was for Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. I got my hands on a Nixon bumper sticker, slapped it on my bike's wire basket, and rode...
3.12.70
In 1968 RN appointed Roy Ash Chairman of the President's Council on Executive Organization. The Ash Council's 1969 Report recommended the creation of a Domestic Council and an Office of Management and Budget. Ash became OMB's Director in 1972. Forty years ago today,...
Nixon Foundation President Interviewed By Hugh Hewitt
On Thursday, New York Times bestselling author and syndicated radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt aired his show live from the Nixon Library. The program included Congressman Mike Pence, James Lileks and an in-studio appearance by Nixon Foundation President Ron Walker....