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Write Your Condolences to the Ford Family
Visitors to the Richard Nixon Library are invited to sign a condolence book for First Lady Betty Ford, which will be sent to her family. The book will be available until the end of the week. As First Lady, Mrs. Ford brought attention to issues of national social...
LA TIMES: “When the Little Ball Moved the Big Ball”
The Nixon Foundation's 40th anniversary of ping pong diplomacy hit the top of the sports page in Saturday's edition of the Los Angeles Times (Click here to see the Times' photo gallery of Friday's ping pong events.): When 'the little ball moved the big ball' four...
Commemorating 40 Years of Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The Richard Nixon Foundation, together with the United States Association of Table Tennis, the University of Southern California U.S.-China Institute, and the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles presented the 40th Anniversary of...
RN on American Decline
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to Midwestern news executives. In The New York Times, Tom Switzer quotes that speech to suggest that RN embraced American decline: Not only had the Soviets matched U.S. military might, the old cold warrior conceded, but Japan and...
Coulter Hosts KABC Radio Live From the East Room
New York Times bestselling author Ann Coulter co-hosted KABC radio's John Phillips Show before a packed audience at the Nixon Library Thursday. The occasion was to discuss Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, her new book, released earlier this month,...
George Washington Visits the Nixon Library
Over 200 visitors packed the Nixon Library’s magnificent White House East Room to listen to George Washington, America’s first President and also the first President featured in the Nixon Foundation’s summer series, Meet the Presidents. Washington, who was accompanied...
6.28.1973 – RN Stresses Importance of Tourism to U.S. Economy
In 1971, President Nixon requested a comprehensive study of tourism in America from the National Tourism Resources Review Commission. Two years later, on 28 June 1973, the President met with Chairman Charles S. Thomas to discuss his commission’s findings. In his...
NY TIMES: What Would Nixon Do?
At The New York Times, Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose contemplates President Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan. He finds his answer in RN's extrication from Vietnam: PRESIDENT OBAMA has made good on his pledge to begin drawing down American forces in...
Video: Herschensohn Discusses RN’s Israel Policy
Former Deputy Special Assistant to President Nixon, Bruce Herschensohn discussed how the 37th President would have handled the current conflict in the Middle East and Israel's dealings with the Palestinian Authority. Topics covered included RN's policy position during...
RN Special Assistant Speaks at Oxford
John R. Price, Special Assistant to President Nixon for urban affairs from 1969 to 1972, presented a lecture at Oxford's Rothermere American Institute on President Nixon's leadership on the domestic front. Titled Richard Nixon: The Last of the Moderate Republican...