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Remembering Col. Vernon Coffey
Remembering Col. Vernon Coffey Army Aide to President Nixon Col. Vernon Coffey, a retired Army colonel and former Army Aide to President Nixon died on September 28, 2019, at Falcons Landing in Potomac Falls, Virginia. He was 91. In January 1969, Col. Coffey...
Podcast: Nicholas Sarantakes on President Nixon and Football
Richard Nixon was a member of the Whittier College football team. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library) Nicholas Sarantakes is author of "Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974." We are now about to begin football season. On an earlier podcast, we...
Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs: Family Assistance Plan
Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs: Family Assistance Plan August 08, 1969 Note: The President delivered the address on nationwide radio and television at 10 p.m. Good evening my fellow Americans: As you know, I returned last Sunday night from a trip around...
Event Recap: Earth to Moon presented by AT&T
Over 700 people blasted-off from the from the steps of the Nixon Library for a 5K race that kicked off an all-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's launch. Racers and several thousand guests, who were dressed for the occasion in space themed attire,...
SpaceX Engineer Talks the Coming Space Age
Jason Silverman is a life support systems engineer at SpaceX. Since 1972, no man has returned to the moon, and progress in exploring new frontiers has moved at an undemanding pace. So why hasn’t America unified behind a large scale space program like Apollo in the...
Space Travel Expert Talks the Lives of the Apollo 11 Astronauts
Francis French is an author and expert on space travel. (Richard Nixon Foundation) July 22, 2019 Yorba Linda (Nixon Library) - Between the short interval of four years — 1968 to 1972 — twenty-four astronauts had traveled on missions to the moon. What made these...
Former AT&T Official Tells Behind-the-Scenes Story of How Moon Landing was Televised
Douglas Paul was plant manager at AT&T in New York, overseeing network engineers receiving and sending transmissions from NASA on the day of the moon landing. July 22, 2019 Yorba Linda (Nixon Library) - Douglas Paul witnessed the moon landing before billions did...
An Insider Recounts Watching the Moon Landing at the White House
The author of this article is seated at the head of the table in the White House Cabinet Room. By John R. Price “The lift-off was beautiful. The power of the engines is staggering, and seconds after one first sees the flame exploding off to both sides of the rocket...
Exclusive Advance Excerpt: “After the Fall” by Kasey Pipes
Kasey S. Pipes, former advisor to President George W. Bush, has written a fascinating new book about President Nixon’s post-Watergate years relying heavily on private post-presidential documents at the Nixon Library. The book, After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback...