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Sonia’s Dress
On April 2, Lady Sonia McMahon, widow of Sir William McMahon who was Australia’s prime minister during most of President Nixon’s first term, died at the age of 77. Her passing received little notice in this country but the obituaries in Australia, and the United...
Ruckelshaus Remembers The First Earth Day
In the Wall Street Journal, William Ruckelshaus — the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency and a panelist in the Nixon Library’s upcoming forum on RN’s environmental record — writesthat the Nixon Administration did much to tackle the environmental...
RN And The Green Jobs Trio
In The Sacramento Bee, Wayne Madsen’s writes that President Nixon’s environmental initiatives were an “early testament to the success of green pioneers” and that he “visualized the green jobs” that would “spearhead the nation’s economy:” Although last December’s...
Larry Higby Honored With Horatio Alger Award
Nixon Foundation board member and former RN Assistant Chief-of-Staff Larry Higby is among 2010's recipients of the Horatio Alger Award. The award is given every year to "dedicated community leaders who demonstrate individual initiative and a commitment to excellence;...
Efficient And Streamlined Government
Introduction The Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget were created on July 1, 1970. The result was that policy making on major domestic issues was consolidated into the Executive Office of the President. Henceforth, on domestic affairs—as had been the...
A Plan For Comprehensive Health Care Reform
“If the Government pays all the medical bills, then only the Government has a stake in holding down medical costs. This means that Government officials would have to approve hospital budgets and set fee schedules and take other steps that would eventually lead to the...
War On Cancer
President Nixon and the War on Cancer In January 2010, Dr. James Cavanaugh, one of RN’s principal advisers on health policy, spoke about the President’s early efforts at health care reform at the Nixon Library. His presentation was part of a panel of key White House...
The Rise Of The Environment
Although Richard Nixon's pre-presidential speeches and writings sometimes had passages referring to his love of the varied landscape of his native state of California, it still came as a surprise to many when, in his State of the Union address on January 22, 1970, he...
Energy Conservation
One aspect of Richard Nixon's presidency that still has far-reaching consequences today is his effort to deal with the issues created by America's consumption of steadily decreasing energy sources. At the start of the Administration, in 1969, this did not seem to be...
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...