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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....
The President’s Daily News Summary — Part IV
The ‘Best’ Part of a News Summary Newspaper readers have their favorite sections. Everyone sees the headlines, but readers scatter after that: some to the comics, others to sports and still others straight to the obituaries and the weather. RN’s news summaries,...
Issa on RN and President Obama
At National Review Online, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) observes that some commentators have favorably likened our current president to Richard Nixon. He argues that there are key differences, too: Regrettably, President Obama is failing where Richard Nixon...
Fifty Years Ago Today: The New Hampshire Primary
Fifty years ago today, on March 8, 1960, Richard Nixon and John Kennedy won their parties' New Hampshire presidential primaries. The anniversary is an occasion to ponder how the presidential nomination process has changed. In 1960, there were only 16 primaries. In...
A Warrior And A Statesman Laid To Rest
On Tuesday morning at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, on the campus of Catholic University in Washington, about 800 mourners attended a funeral Mass for Gen. Alexander Haig. Among the priests conducting the liturgy was his brother, Father Francis Haig. The...
Pat Nixon’s Goodwill Mission to Comfort a Nation
PN climbs through rubble in the town of Yungar during her goodwill mission to Earthquake devastated Peru in May 1970. As most know, a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the South American coastal nation of Chile last week. Thanks to moderately-strict building...
Bob Brown Remembers
Today concludes Black History Month 2010, and the Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record marks it with an interview with Bob Brown, who was the White House aide in charge of minority affairs in President Nixon's first term. He recalls: When Brown [after...