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The President’s Daily News Summary — Part III
Print media often referred to the Daily News Summary as the most exclusive newspaper in the world. It was a fair description because they were written to please just one person, RN himself. They began during the 1968 primaries by Pat Buchanan, who chose articles “the...
Jackie Gleason For RN
From the 1968 campaign:
The Great Conservationists
A Time Magazine story dated the first week of February 1969 illustrates how RN set the tone for his administration's environmental agenda very early on: After his embroilment in the Nixon Administration's only serious appointment hassle, Walter Hickel was doubly...
The Domestic Council On Demand
The first of the Richard Nixon Legacy Forums, Domestic Policy Initiatives of the Nixon Years: Bringing Innovation and Progress to the American People is now available for viewers -- free -- on demand:
Whittier College Students Study RN
A new political science class at Richard Nixon’s alma mater is the first at Whittier to study his early life, Presidency and years as a global statesman. The class, "The Complex Legacy of Nixon," took a Yorba Linda field trip January 23 to find out more from the...
A Race – And Candidate – To Watch
Nearly 65 years after his famous grandfather was first asked to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representative from that state’s 12th district, 30-year old Christopher Cox has put his hat in the ring for the seat in New York’s first district on...
Thirty-Seven Years Ago Today: Peace With Honor
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
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Thirty-seven years ago today, the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam ---popularly known as the Paris Peace Accords--- was signed. After four hard years, RN had achieved the peace with honor he had promised and was determined to achieve. The...
Robert Mosbacher 1927 – 2010
Robert Mosbacher spearheaded the North American Free Trade Agreement as President George H.W. Bush's first Commerce Secretary. Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher died on Sunday. He was 83. After growing up and attending college in the Northeast, he joined...
Nixon in the Navy
A post at the left-wing Common Dreams rails against President Obama for not being liberal enough. It says of the Democratic Party: "It's the same party that could run a decorated combat hero against a war evader in 1972, only to be successfully labeled as national...