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On April 19, political commentator, former assistant to President Nixon, and 1992 Republican senatorial candidate Bruce Herschensohn comes to the Nixon Library to discuss his new book American Amnesia, which presents his thesis that had Congress been prepared to...

Part of the political fallout resulting from the recently passed health-care legislation has been the alienation of David Frum from the conservative movement. Frum is a 49-year-old native of Toronto who, in the twenty-odd years since settling in New York after...

Contrasting what he calls President Obama's 'abysmal' treatment of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch praises RN's support for the Jewish state during the Yom Kippur War: it was Richard Nixon during the 1973 war, who...

Thirty-Six years ago today, RN commemorated the first anniversary of the last troop's return home from Vietnam, now known as Vietnam Veterans Day. Below are the Thirty-Seventh President's remarks: Just one year ago, the last American combat serviceman returned to the...

Overwhelmingly supportive of President Barack Obama’s health-care reform effort, the mainstream media has portrayed Republican Senators’ predictions that they and their House colleagues will be reluctant to support other administration proposals as a combination of...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...