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In Khrushchev’s Kitchen
As apart of the opening tour of the Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit, Patriot. President. Peacemaker Friday, youngsters from the local Boys and Girls Club learned about Vice President Nixon's trip to Moscow in 1959, and his face-off with Soviet Premier Nikita...
Nixon 100 Centennial Exhibit Launch
[youtube https://youtu.be/5wpdz9Eg4TY] February 15, 2013: The Nixon Centennial Exhibit, "Patriot. President. Peacemaker.," officially opened at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library before former White House officials, and friends and admirers of President...
2.5.1969 — Realpolitik at its Finest
One of the most widely cited documents by the United Nations is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which nearly every nation of the world is a signatory. The goal: stop the production and rapid spread of fissile nuclear material to develop dangerous bombs and,...
Charles Allen on Military Intelligence During the Yom Kippur War
[youtube https://youtu.be/fMrdoXJ8jlg] January 30, 2013: Charles Allen, former Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, discusses CIA military analysis during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. His keynote remarks were part of an all...
1.23.1973 — RN Announces Peace Agreement
Forty years ago today, RN went on national television to announce that a peace agreement had been reached, thus ending American involvement in the Vietnam War and delivering on his promise to bring peace with honor. According to Bruce Herschensohn in his keynote...
Nixon on Paar
TIME Magazine will post online every day for the next year an interesting piece of Nixon trivia to mark RN's centennial. A first-class musician -- he once said that if he had not gone into politics he would have become a musician -- here's RN playing the piano on the...
Happy 100th, Mr. President!
Today marks 100 years since the thirty-seventh President of the United States was born in a house his father built in Yorba Linda, California. Here is the acceptance speech Richard Nixon delivered as the Republican nominee in 1968 - still considered one of the most...
Grand Marshal 37
This morning renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall served as Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade, the leader of a national American tradition to ring in the New Year. She follows a long line of distinguished individuals to serve as Grand Marshal...
Forty Years After The Last Moon Walk, Time To Go Again?
Four decades ago this month, at about 12:40 AM EST on December 14, 1972, that Capt. Eugene Cernan, USN, lifted his foot up from the airless, age-old surface of the moon, and boarded Apollo 17's lunar module. Thus it was that humankind said farewell to hands-on lunar...
Honoring Vietnam Vets
Sunday's Christmas ceremonies at the Nixon Library honoring America's best and bravest, gave special acknowledgement to the sacrifice of Vietnam veterans: For Terry Griffke, a corporal in the Marine Corps who served in Vietnam, the acknowledgment of those who fought...