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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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."

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...

The Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain has just published this review of James C. Humes and Dr. Jarvis Ryals's book Only Nixon, which recounts the President's historic China trip as seen from the perspective of the Chinese who helped arrange for RN's meetings with Zhou Enlai...

It's now been just over a week since word came of the death at age ninety-one of J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher In The Rye and Franny And Zooey. A lot has been written since then, much of it focusing on the comparative seclusion in which he spent fifty-eigh...