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RN On Doctor Who This Weekend
As most couch potatoes know, a thousand years from now, Richard Nixon (or at least his head preserved in a transparent jar) will be completing his third term as President of Earth, as depicted in Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's animated series Futurama. (There was...
21 April 1969: RN + DR = OEO
Forty-two years ago today ---on 21 April 1969--- President Nixon announced his choice of a thirty-six year old Chicago congressman ---Donald H. Rumsfeld--- to head the troubled and troubling Office of Economic Opportunity. RN turned out to be both a prophet and a...
Ken Hesse, 1935-2011
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Hesse, a member of the crew that flew Air Force One during the Nixon Administration, died on April 7 in Woodstock, Georgia, at the age of 76. His obituary appears here. Along with his involvement in flights in which the President and heads of...
Video: Writing For 37
Yesterday I attended the highly illuminating and interesting discussion at George Washington University's Morton Auditorium in which after an introduction by Geoff Shepard, formerly of the Nixon White House's Domestic Council, five of the thirty-seventh President's...
White House Wordsmiths Remember Writing For RN
The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted its 11th Nixon Legacy forum before a packed audience at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium Monday. "Writing for 37," featured five distinguished wordsmiths who began working with Richard Nixon on his 1968...
4.11.69 – RN Names Virginia Knauer to Head Consumer Affairs
Forty-two years ago today, RN named consumer affairs expert Virginia Knauer to the top position in the federal government on consumer affairs. In a ceremony in the Rose Garden, the President watched as Mrs. Knauer was sworn in as his Special Assistant for Consumer...
17 April 1970: RN Welcomes The Man In Black to the White House
President Nixon became acquainted with Johnny Cash through their mutual friend Billy Graham. On 17 April 1970, at the President’s invitation, the Man in Black gave a concert for an invited audience in the East Room of the White House. Cash had married his Opry...
Issa, Nixon, and Obama
Representative Darrell Issa, chair of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, has suggested that the Obama adminstration is too "Nixonian" in its approach to government transparency. But when it comes to foreign policy, says Mr. Issa, it is not Nixonian...
Cambodian New Year Celebrated at Nixon Library
Hundreds came to celebrate the coming of the Cambodia New Year Friday in the East Room of the Nixon Library where events included traditional dances by performers from the Khmer Arts Academy, remarks by author and political commentator Bruce Herschensohn, and a...
Foundation Hosts U.S. Archivist, Assistant Archivist
Coinciding with the opening of the NARA Watergate exhibit, the Nixon Foundation hosted a luncheon today to honor the Archivist of the United States, Mr. David S. Ferriero, as well as the Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries, Ms. Sharon Fawcett. Prior to...