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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...
Al Haig In Conversation
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...
Running Against Hooverville–The Presidential Blame Game
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...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates Honored By Nixon Center
Together with retired Air Force General Charles F. Boyd, RN’s daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with the Nixon Center’s annual Distinguished Service Award in Washington on Wednesday, February 24. The program also included remarks...
Dr. Kissinger’s Tribute to General Haig
At Time's site today, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger writes about Gen. Alexander Haig's passing: Societies become rich through ingenuity and hard work. But they become great because they produce men and women who lift them beyond the moment. Alexander Haig, who served his...
Diane Sawyer Speaks About Richard Nixon
As many of TNN's readers know, Diane Sawyer, the veteran newswoman who now anchors ABC's World News Tonight, spent the 1970s working in Richard Nixon's White House, then, after his resignation from the Presidency, in San Clemente as his assistant for his Memoirs. In...
Nixon, Obama, and Health Insurance Price Controls
Steve Chapman writes of the president's proposal to control health insurance premiums: Barack Obama has often modeled his policies on Franklin Roosevelt. Lately, though, he's been coming across more as Richard Nixon Lite. In 1971, fed up with the steady rise of wages...