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Larry Higby on President Nixon’s Historic Trip To China
[youtube https://youtu.be/xQzBKOgTaJM] February 15, 2010: Larry Higby, President Nixon's Assistant Chief-of-Staff, remembers the historic peace journey to China in 1972.
Managing The Nixon Oval Office
On Presidents’ Day 2010, more than five thousand packed the Nixon Library and were welcomed with cherry pie and appearances by Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. Then at 1:30 pm, RN’s Oval Office Team presented the second Nixon Legacy...
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...
Article On Ron Walker In Orange County Register
During the Nixon Administration, Ron Walker headed the White House's advance team, working on projects ranging in scale from the thirty-seventh President's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China to his visits to Washington-area schools. The concepts developed by...
Nixon and Obesity
As the First Lady wages a campaign against obesity, the Associated Press reminds us that the fight has been underway for more than half a century. President Eisenhower created President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and tapped RN to head it. In 1971, he...
Richard Norton Smith On The Nixon Funeral
This week Public Affairs Press has reissued Who's Buried In Grant's Tomb?, a book edited by Brian Lamb and originally published in 2000 as a companion volume to the "American Presidents" series of programs that were, at that time, being first broadcast on C-SPAN. (In...
Len Colodny And Tom Shachtman Discuss “Forty Years’ War”
Recently Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman appeared at the World Affairs Council in Washington to talk about their new book focusing on the foreign policies of the Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush Administrations, The Forty Years' War. Above is C-SPAN's video of this...
The Effective Use Of RN’s Time: How One Time Problem Was Solved
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
Osborne: “Mission To China”
As we come upon the the thirty-eighth anniversary of RN's historic trip to China later this month, The New Republic has digged into their archives for John Osborne's report on the "week that changed the world."
Nixon, Obama, and Ohio
According to Hotline, Democrats are seeking to build an electoral college fortress in Ohio. An ODP [Ohio Democratic Party] document notes that the importance of the state to the Electoral College grows even more critical after this year's census: "Projections suggest...