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Preparing President Nixon’s Daily News Summary
This article is Part I of a series on how RN received the news. I was a young man just a few months shy of my 30th birthday, the father of a 3-year-old girl, husband in a marriage struggling to stay intact, when a Staff Assistant to the President of the United States...
Orange County’s Own
From an OC Register reader via staff writer Jessica Tyrell: There is no denying that Richard M. Nixon was one of Orange County's own. Born in a small, wood-frame house in Yorba Linda, alumnus of Fullerton Union High School. He was a regular American kid, working where...
RN’s Son-In-Law Gives Annual Legacy Lecture
Edward F. Cox, the son-in-law of Richard Nixon and newly elected Chairman of the New York Republican party gave this year's Nixon Legacy lecture in the East Room at the Nixon Library. RN’s son-in-law and the newly elected Chairman of the New York Republican Party,...
Longest Serving POW Honored By Nixon Foundation
The longest serving POW in Vietnam, Commander Everett Alvarez, Jr., was honored with the Nixon Foundation's Great American Hero Award by President Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox. From left to right: Christopher Nixon Cox, the President's grandson; Commander...
Celebrating RN’s 97th Birthday
President and First Lady Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox was joined by Navy Rear Admiral Mike Shatynski (right) and Commander Everett Alvarez, Jr. (left), the longest serving POW in Vietnam, for the Presidential Wreath laying at the memorial site of her parents....
First Duffer
America learned early about President Obama's love affair with basketball, a romance so intense that during the 2008 campaign reports kept leaking out of his camp that if elected, he planned to convert the one-lane bowling alley installed by President Nixon in the...
Thomas Mallon Looks At “The Pink Lady”
In November, TNN's Frank Gannon wrote about the appearance in Tina Brown's Daily Beast of an excerpt from The Pink Lady, the new biography by Sally Denton of Helen Gahagan Douglas, the actress-turned-Congressperson who was defeated by then-Rep. Richard Nixon for the...
Interview with Hon. James Cavanaugh
[youtube https://youtu.be/GtZIVedXHeg] January 8, 2010: Former Special Assistant to President Nixon, Frank Gannon, talks with the Domestic Council's Associate for Health Policy, James Cavanaugh, and Whittier College's Nixon Fellow Alex Tallarida on efforts for health...
Interview with Ambassador Richard Fairbanks
[youtube https://youtu.be/FL_Jaw2DIzU] January 8, 2010: Ambassador Richard Fairbanks talks with President Nixon's Special Assistant Frank Gannon about his years on the Domestic Council spearheading the direction of Energy policy.
Interview with Hon. John C. Whitaker
[youtube https://youtu.be/FvQjJ1e56rQ] January 8, 2010: President Nixon's Special Assistant Frank Gannon interviews John Whitaker who served on the Domestic Council as an Associate for Environmental Policy. Whitaker discussed President Nixon's sweeping environmental...