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Nicholas Griffin’s New Book “Ping-Pong Diplomacy”
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
RN and a Constitutionalist Judiciary
RN congratulating Warren E. Burger on his official appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court By Chris Barber In the course of a single term, the President will make hundreds if not thousands of appointments to various government positions. Of those...
1974 State of the Union Address, 40 years
President Nixon addressing Congress with his State of the Union Message on January 30, 1974 He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and...
To Stabilize and Reform: Why America Matters to the Middle East and Beyond
RN lends a hand to President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. Richard Nixon began his Foreign Affairs journal entry, "Asia After Vietnam," with the sentiment that Vietnam had so long dominated the American psyche that it distorted its picture of the entirety of Asia. The same...
When RN Met the Pope
President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon meet with Pope Paul VI on September 29, 1970. When the positions of the supreme Pontiff were so often met by the opportunistic ardor of both Republicans and Democrats, President Nixon sought audience with the Pope not as a...
“It Was Nixon Who Gave Life To The Civil Rights Act”
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift's Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in the...
RN’s Middle East Grand Strategy
After the numerically inferior forces of Israel defeated the Soviet-armed Egyptians and Syrians in less than a week of warfare in 1967, the Soviet Union escalated their rearming efforts among these key Arabian allies. While the United States wanted peace in the Middle...
MLK & RN: Creating a More Just Society
A version of this story ran Martin Luther King Day 2013: VP Nixon with MLK in 1957 “Let me say how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,” were the words of...
Young Richard Nixon’s Fullerton Home Remembered
The Fullerton home where Richard Nixon lived with his aunt Carrie Wildermuth while he attended Fullerton Union High School was commemorated on January 9, marking RN's 101st birthday. Former California State Assemblyman Chris Norby led the effort to get the 92-year old...
A Young RN’s Autobiography
RN as a young boy. As we prepare for what is sure to be a wonderful celebration of Richard Nixon's 101st birthday anniversary this Saturday, January 11, nixonfoundation.org unveils a never before seen eighth grade school paper written by the former President himself....