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Breitbart: “I’m Nixonesque”
“I will do anything for the cause, ” said online media superstar and commentator Andrew Breitbart before a crowd Thursday at the Nixon Library, where he discussed and signed copies of his new book about media bias, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the...
Nixon Aide Remembers Ralph Albertazzie
Dewey Clower, an advanceman to President Nixon, had the honor of giving a eulogy yesterday for his good friend and RN's Chief Air Force One pilot, Col. Ralph Albertazzie. He talks about the gathering in honor of Albertazzie below: Shirley and I returned home last...
What McGovern Learned
Years after losing to RN in the 1972 presidential election, George McGovern started a small business. In part because of taxes and government regulations, it went bust. At the Houston Chronicle, Chris Ladd writes: McGovern described the lessons he learned from his...
Niall Ferguson On Interviewing Henry Kissinger
Tomorrow (September 19) at 4 pm, the National Geographic Channel will do a repeat showing of Kissinger, the two-hour documentary that I posted about last week. Having watched it, I can tell you that, setting aside a few of the jazzier trimmings attached to it by its...
Video: Justice Breyer Speaks At Nixon Library
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer made a rare public appearance at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library Wednesday evening as nearly 550 packed the East Room to hear him talk about his book on the history of Supreme Court decisions, Making Our Democracy Work: A...
Video: 9/11 Hero Keynotes 10th Anniversary Ceremonies
Lt. Joe Torrillo, a FDNY hero who miraculously survived the collapse of the Twin Towers keynoted the 10th anniversary commemoration of 9/11 last Sunday at the Nixon Library, where ceremonies included a patriotic ensemble of choral and instrumental presentations, a...
Dr. Henry Kissinger In Two Hour TV Special Tonight
Tonight at 8 pm on the National Geographic Channel, Dr. Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, will appear in a two-hour special - assembled from 25 hours of interviews and including a variety of...
Video: VP Cheney Talks About Life in Politics
Vice President Dick Cheney made his first West Coast appearance at the Nixon Library Wednesday since the launch of his explosive new political memoir, In My Time. More than 750 people packed the East Room to hear the Vice President - accompanied on-stage by daughter...
9/11 Observances Begin with Somber Arrival of WTC Wreckage
More than one thousand gathered at the Nixon Library to witness a stirring reminder of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001: the arrival of 20 tons of World Trade Center steel remnants and a New York Fire Department aerial ladder truck damaged during rescue...
RN and the Seeds of Counter-Terrorism
On September 25, 1972 President Nixon issued a memo to his Secretary of State William Rogers establishing a Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. The creation of this committee was a direct response to the Black September terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympic Games in...