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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.

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...

Saturday marks the 97th birthday of President Nixon, and the day before that is the momentous 75th anniversary of the day that Elvis Aron Presley (and, briefly, his twin brother Jesse Garon) entered this world. At the end of the year, four days before Christmas, will...

In the Daily Mirror section, the LA Times' resident archivist Larry Harnisch takes a look at Vice President Nixon's record setting flight aboard an American Airlines 707 from Los Angeles to Baltimore fifty years ago today. It took no longer than 3 hours and 39 minutes.

With the coming of a New Year we are again reminded that on January 1, 1959, now 51 years ago, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rolled into Havana and established a Communist government in the Western Hemisphere.  Castro is now enjoying his senior status as a thorn...

I have become...convinced that the 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never. ---President Nixon's Signing Statement for the...

At the Huffington Post, Ray Brescia writes of the phrase "Now, More Than Ever," or NMTE: Interestingly, it was not George W. Bush who introduced the phrase to the political discourse. In fact, it was another Republican President, Richard Nixon, who used the NMTE...

RN 1970: A photograph by portraitist Merrett Smith. On the night of 6 February 1969  RN was preparing for an interview with TIME and LIFE columnist Hugh Sidey.  He wrote three pages of thoughts and resolutions regarding the responsibilities and opportunities of a...

As 2009 comes to an end, here is a brief (and highly selective) look back forty years ago --- to 1969.  Many other important and memorable events occurred --- but their photos haven't yet reached the internet. On 20 January 1969, RN was inaugurated as the...