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Interview with Edward F. Cox
[youtube https://youtu.be/eYzutLwyAIE] January 9, 2010: Richard Nixon Son-in-law and newly elected Chairman of the New York Republican Party, Edward F. Cox, talks with Nixon Foundation Online Editor Jonathan Movroydis about RN's legacy and the future of the GOP.
President Nixons 97th Birthday Commemoration
[youtube https://youtu.be/McA5cWCfI90] <p>January 9, 2010: President Nixon's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox lays a wreath given to her by President Obama at the gravesite of her father. She is escorted by Rear Admiral Mike Shatynsky and Commander Everett Alvarez,...
Interview with Commander Everett Alvarez, Jr.
[youtube https://youtu.be/eucYFK7-7U8] January 9, 2010: Former Special Assistant to President Nixon, Frank Gannon, talks Navy Commander Everett Alvarez, Jr. (Ret.). among the longest serving prisoners of war in American history. In this interview, Commander Alvarez...
Whittaker Chambers’s House Damaged By Fire
From Westminster, Maryland, came the news on Wednesday that an electrical fire had occured at the farm of Whittaker Chambers, the onetime Communist and journalist whose testimony in 1948, and "pumpkin papers" evidence, led to the conviction of former State Department...
1.9.1913 — 97 Years Ago Today
I was born in a house my father built. My birth on the night of January 9, 1913, coincided with a record-breaking cold snap in our town of Yorba Linda, California. Yorba Linda was a farming community of 200 people about thirty miles from Los Angeles, surrounded by...
1.9.72
Thirty-eight years ago today, PN arrived back from a trip to Africa in time to help RN celebrate his fifty-ninth birthday. She was the first First Lady to visit Africa; her eight-day 10,000 mile trip to Liberia, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast (where half a million people...
RN’s Domestic Council Stops By Yorba Linda
In the first of year long series of Richard Nixon Legacy Forums, four distinguished members of RN’s Domestic Council were at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Friday, January 8th to discuss the President’s innovations on far reaching issues including health...
Tom Wicker Talks About Nixon On C-SPAN3
This weekend on C-SPAN3, there will be two reruns of a 90-minute program taped in 1995, in which former New York Times reporter and columnist Tom Wicker discusses the thirty-seventh President. (Wicker's 1991 book One Of Us is, along with William Safire's Before The...
For Their Devoted Friendship
Photo: RN's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox and son-in-law Edward F. Cox pictured with La Casa Pacifica owner Gavin Herbert and Family at the dedication of the Pat Nixon Rose Garden on January 8, 2010.
Buck Or Hot Potato?
In the old West, when the boys played poker at the saloon, or wherever, along with the cards, chips, money, and various beverages, the table was also adorned with a knife–one with a buckhorn handle. The knife was moved from place to place, depending on the person...