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President Obama’s Vocal Minority Speech
1 December 2009 and 3 November 1969: the desire to contain a vocal minority and the determination to mobilize a silent majority. I’ve looked at a lot of the coverage of the President’s speech at West Point last night, and, so far at least, no one seems to have noticed...
12.2.69
Forty years ago today, on 2 December 1969, RN signed House and Senate bills dealing with the preservation of presidential homes and birthplaces. 60 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH: 27 was born here on 15 September 1857. 250 Eisenhower Farm Drive, Gettysburg, PA: 34...
Setting The Record Straight
Last month the International Republican Institute honored Henry Kissinger with its 2009 Freedom award in recognition of his contribution to the security and progress of the United States. HAK was introduced by his old friend Senator John McCain, and his former...
The Mission Inn At Christmas
From the Los Angeles Times comes this article about the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, California which has just set up its much-cherished "Festival of Lights" for another holiday season. Nixon scholars know it as the place where the future President married Pat...
Obama/Edwards: The Ticket That Never Was
In recent months little has been heard about the scandal that forced former Senator (and 2004 Democratic vice-presidential candidate) John Edwards from political life. A grand jury in North Carolina is now hearing testimony regarding the question of whether funds...
Will Mr. Obama Seize His Big Mac Moment?
This Tuesday, Barack Obama will travel to the United States Military Academy at West Point to deliver the most important address of his young presidency. He has obviously chosen the site for the speech with great care and in the hope that the backdrop – a storied...
The Pardon In The Rose Garden
President Obama's pardon yesterday of a turkey named Courage was the latest exercise of a clemency that may (or may not) have first been extended by President Truman in 1947. Because it's Thanksgiving and children may be reading ---and because the l-tryptophan is...
November 1969 — Giving Thanks
A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 --- their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 ---their first year in the White House--- the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any families from nineteen DC area old age homes to join them at...
Forty Years Ago: Thanksgiving Proclaimed
Proclamation 3944 - Thanksgiving Day, 1969 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of...
This Thanksgiving, Please Pass The Brisket
(This article was written for The New Nixon last Thanksgiving. Recently, the editor of The Jewish Press, "America's Largest Independent Jewish Weekly," asked permission to use it in the print and on line editions of that paper in the days before Thanksgiving this...