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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,...

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 ‘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,...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

In 2000, James Rosen of Fox News interviewed Gen. Alexander Haig for his biography of John Mitchell. That book, The Strong Man, was published eight years later. But it turns out that, in the course of the three-hour conversation, the General talked of many other...

In the immediate aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before the nation accepting the total blame for what had happened. He referred to an old saying about victory having a thousand fathers, but defeat being an orphan, and...