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Video: Bruce Herschensohn Gives Nixonian Solution to Egyptian Crisis
Author, commentator and former Special Assistant to President Nixon Bruce Herschensohn reported on the recent sequence of events in Egypt Tuesday. His talk in the East Room focused on what President Nixon would have done, if confronted with a similar power struggle...
Newsweek Cover Story: RN’s Grand Strategies
Newsweek's newest columnist, British historian Niall Ferguson, writes that President Obama's national security team was caught totally by surprise during the recent sequence of events in Egypt, a crisis that President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger would have ultimately been...
Happy Valentine’s Day From the Nixon Foundation
RN talks about the first time he met Patricia Ryan: One day in 1938, Mrs. Lilly Baldwin, the director of the local amateur theatre group, telephoned me to ask if I would like to play the part of a prosecuting attorney in their upcoming production of Ayn Rand's...
RN and RR
As I listened to the well earned and much deserved tributes paid this past weekend to the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan on his centennial, and thought about RN’s coming 100th birthday in 2013, I recalled this anecdote from Reagan’s memoir: In 1962, while...
RN Helped Switch RR
In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan's shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN's direction. He writes: One...
Exclusive Interview: Rumsfeld Talks “Known and Unknown”
Donald Rumsfeld, the 13th and 21st Secretary of Defense talks to RN Special Assistant Frank Gannon about working on his memoir, Known and Unknown, which arrives on bookshelves today, and his years in the Nixon Administration. The interview covers his tenure as...
Khachigian: Reagan, the Great Communicator
Nixon Foundation Board Member, Nixon Speechwriter and Chief Reagan Speechwriter writes in the OC Register: Of the eight years and multiple hours I spent collaborating with President Ronald Reagan on speeches, among the most frequent questions I'm asked is, what made...
Ronald Reagan at 100
Ronald Reagan turned 100 years old yesterday. A fellow Californian, RN crossed paths several times with Reagan throughout his political career, including in Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign and then as rivals for the presidency in 1968. RN admired him for...
Must-read Review of a Must-read Book
John Coyne’s thoughtful review of David and Julie Eisenhower’s outstanding book, Going Home to Glory, also offers as insightful and concise an analysis of RN’s Vietnam policy as I have seen in quite some time. Read the review and then buy and read the book; there are...
ABC Producer Remembers the Enormity of the China Trip
Former ABC Executive Producer Av Westin - who attended the premier of "Nixon in China" and was actually part of the press pool on the real trip - discusses how the 37th President's diplomatic tour de force impacted the Cold War: At the banquet Monday, I spoke to a guy...