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Bill Livingood Retiring
One of the longest serving House Sergeant-at-Arms and former Secret Service agent Bill Livingood is retiring after five decades of public service. Politico reports: House Sergeant-at-Arms Wilson “Bill” Livingood, who led the chamber through some of the greatest...
New(t) Gingrich: 2012’s New Nixon?
During this month the big political story on the Republican side of the 2012 presidential race has been the steady upward move of former Rep. Newt Gingrich in opinion polls. Following a rather shaky start, his ability to display his wide knowledge of policy topics...
Conrad Black: Nixon Half Way to Mt. Rushmore
At National Review, author Conrad Black writes that America's 37th President was one of the best ever: In his one full presidential term, in addition to extracting America undefeated from Vietnam and opening relations with China, Richard Nixon negotiated and signed...
Nixon Staff Gather for Annual Reunion in Washington
Nixon White House domestic policy staff met for an annual gathering in Washington last week. The event included remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, Nixon Foundation Chairman Ron Walker, board directors Larry Higby and Tod Hullin, Fox News...
Nixon Era Legal Experts Revisit High Court Nominations
The Richard Nixon Foundation and National Archives co-presented a Nixon Legacy Forum on President Nixon’s Supreme Court nominations Thursday. Hosted at the Archives' William G. McGowan Theater in Washington, Participants included Nixon Speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and...
What They’re Saying About the Holiday Trains
Magical Holiday Festival of Trains - KTLA 5Gayle Anderson was live in Yorba Linda to see the "Magical Holiday Festival of Trains" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Trains and fun make a stop at the Nixon Library - OC Register The model trains are...
Tricia Nixon Cox and Family Visit with Astronauts
President Nixon’s daughter Tricia Nixon Cox and her family visited with House Speaker John Boehner, and the four astronauts who pioneered space travel Wednesday. After the meeting in the Speaker’s office, former U.S. Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the...
Foundation Statement on Grand Jury Release
Today’s release of President Nixon’s Grand Jury testimony, while unprecedented, is certain to be of interest. It is important to note that the President appeared voluntarily and answered all questions. The Richard Nixon Foundation urges all those interested in the...
RIP Joe Frazier, Champ Of The Nixon Era
The late 1960s and early 1970s - in other words, what we now call the Nixon years - were very eventful ones in the history of American sports. So many names and dates, sublime and heroic and sometimes comic, come to mind. Bobby Riggs facing Billie Jean King before...
Chris Matthews Compares Obama And Nixon
For nearly fifteen years, television viewers have watched politico-turned-journalist Chris Matthews deliver his impressive lungpower on the talk show Hardball, first on CNBC, then MSNBC. Probably every block in the country has at least one resident who can do a...