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Steve Bull On “The Effective Use of the President’s Time”
[youtube https://youtu.be/BPUFlzcHS8c] February 15, 2010: Special Assistant to President Nixon, Steve Bull, discusses the management of the Oval Office and RN's day-to-day schedule.
Larry Higby on “The Effective Use of the President’s Time.”
[youtube https://youtu.be/E0Aw9DXOEZc] February 15, 2010: Former Nixon Assistant Chief-of-Staff discusses Chief-of-Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, his innovations and the organization of the modern Presidency.
Dwight Chapin “On The Effective Use of the President’s Time”
[youtube https://youtu.be/2NqwEPITKB4] February 15, 2010: Former Deputy Assistant to President, Dwight Chapin, discusses working for Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman.
Dwight Chapin on President Nixon’s Trip to China
[youtube https://youtu.be/bH2ZJ_c3QM4] February 15, 2010: Former Deputy Assistant to President Nixon, Dwight Chapin, discusses the Thirty-Seventh President's historic trip to China.
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...