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Sending The News To China

This article is Part II of a series on how RN received the news. Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages - in spite of constant efforts to keep them...

Reminiscing About RN and EP

"Picture Of Nixon And Elvis Worth A Thousand Words," reads the headline in this morning's Los Angeles Times, and, sure enough, the article by Faye Fiore, the paper's Washington reporter, that appears below it spends about a thousand words (or more) describing the...

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...

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...