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Healthcare Reform As Far Back As 1960
On this day, October 2, in 1960, RN published a paper on medical research focusing on developing solutions for healthcare advances in the 1960s and sustaining "the most advanced medical care in the world." What makes this paper so interesting -- in addition to the...
America’s Royal Couple
I had read on this Website that David and Julie Eisenhower would appear at the National Book Festival on Washington DC’s Mall Saturday, September 22. So I went over to say hi and to get them to sign their book “Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D....
Middle East Crisis: What Would Nixon Do?
With the Middle East in turmoil, leaders and policy makers must look at Richard Nixon's performance during the Arab-Israel crisis of the early 1970s. He not only solved a crisis, but also created a generation of peace. Learn more by watching the Nixon Legacy Forum,...
23 September 1952 – Checkers’ 60th Anniversary
Exclusive to Nixonfoundation.org, Lee Huebner, former Nixon Speechwriter and current George Washington University Professor of Media and Public Affairs, has written an essay about then Senator Richard Nixon's seminal Checker's Speech given 60 years ago on September...
“The Play’s” The Thing
There's no denying that the big sports story coming out of Washington right now centers around the Nationals, now a cinch to go into the National League playoffs, and maybe even on course to do the unthinkable and bring the World Series to the nation's capital for the...
Julie And David Eisenhower To Appear At National Book Festival
The National Book Festival, introduced by former First Lady Laura Bush, sponsored by the Library of Congress, and held since 2001 every September on the National Mall, has long been established as one of the country's premiere events for authors to meet readers. This...
Neil Armstrong At Rest
Today, exactly three weeks after his death, the cremated remains of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, were laid to rest somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean by his family and the crewmen of the USS Philippine Sea. Given Mr. Armstrong's dislike of...
The Nixons’ Disney Monorail Ride
In June 1959, Vice President Nixon and family, with Walt Disney and Art Linkletter opened the Disneyland Monorail. "Legend" Bob Gurr recounts the fun - and very humorous - event:
9.4.1970 – The Flag Flies High
On September 4, 1970, President Nixon -- on the advice of his wife -- issued a presidential proclamation mandating that the American flag that flies high over the White House is to fly 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- regardless of whether or not the President is...
Neil Armstrong And The “Silent Generation”
At the beginning of this month, in the lists of celebrity birthdays online and in the newspaper, one would see that on the fifth, "astronaut Neil Armstrong is 82" - just as he had turned 81 the year before that, and so on, going back to 1969 when his thirty-seventh...