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The Announcement
The July 26, 1971 cover of Time Magazine featuring RN and Dr. Kissinger. To a very keen observer, President Nixon’s acceptance of Premier Chou En-Lai’s invitation to China would not have had as great a shock as it did to the rest of the nation. President Nixon, in...
The Modern Marco Polo
Dr. Kissinger with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai. President Nixon shocked the world when he accepted an invitation to China from Premier Chou En-Lai on national television. This event marked the beginning of the public’s awareness of administration efforts to normalize...
Ping-Pong: A Diplomatic Test Balloon
The U.S. Ping-Pong team became the first group of Americans to visit mainland China since the Communist takeover in 1949. “You have opened a new chapter in the relations between the American and Chinese people,” said Premier Chou En-Lai. “I am confident,” he...
China: Taking the Long View
This piece is part of a companion series commemorating President Nixon's Centennial and his historic 1972 journey to China. From May 1 through May 10, the Nixon Foundation is taking a delegation - led by RN's grandson Christopher Nixon Cox - to retrace the 37th...
A Founder Of Earth Day Remembers President Nixon
Monday, April 22, marks the 44th annual observance of Earth Day. It was founded in 1970 at the urging of a number of environmental groups and others interested in bringing public attention to the threat to human, animal and plant life posed by pollution and other...
President Richard Nixon on Margaret Thatcher
Lady Thatcher, one of the giants of the 20th century, passed on yesterday at 87. In his most revealing memoir, In the Arena, RN wrote fondly about the Iron Lady: There is no one I would rather have on my side in a fight than Margaret Thatcher. She deserves the major...
Six Degrees: Kevin Bacon To Love Boat’s Gopher (Via RN)
Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) is a name little known now except to students of Hungarian literature. But in a short story he wrote in 1929, he introduced a concept that he derived from studying the mathematics of probability, and which, for over a quarter-century, has...
The First US Presidential Trip to Israel
President Obama's trip to Israel -- his first as POTUS -- has appropriately generated much interest and intrigue, given the delicate state of affairs in the Middle East. It is appropriate on such an occasion, as many media outlets have done, to recall the first...
George Washington’s Constitution Arrives At Nixon Library
As reported earlier at nixonfoundation.org, George Washington's personal copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States, in book form, went on display yesterday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, following an unveiling ceremony featuring...
Pat Nixon’s 101st
Today, March 16, would have been Pat Nixon's 101st birthday....but since her Irish-American father Bill Ryan always liked to think of her as his "Saint Patrick's babe born in the morn," she grew up celebrating her birthday on the 17th, and always preferred to put a...