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OC Register: Students Debate Founding Fathers
"Students Debate Founding Fathers," By Elizabeth Nixon, OC Register: Students got a rare opportunity to argue with the nation's founding fathers Tuesday. "Why won't you let women vote or hold office?" one student demanded. "I think the idea of women holding office is...
Pat Nixon and Panda Diplomacy
Coming off the heels of Chinese Premier Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington, President Obama announced that two giant pandas in the Washington National Zoo – the zoo’s most famous residents – will remain in the U.S. for five more years rather than return to China as was...
Gingrich: The EPA Was Founded on Sound Ideas
During a speech in Iowa last week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for the replacement of the Environmental Protection Agency with an organization that could better work with businesses and embraces the future of science and technology: Gingrich, who has...
David Frye, RIP
David Frye has passed away at the age of 77. He did a variety of impressions, and the New York Times obituary explains his most famous: It was Nixon, however, who kept Mr. Frye a regular on the top television variety shows and at the big Las Vegas casinos, perhaps...
Jewish Press: How RN Saved Soviet Jewry
The Jewish Press highlights colleague Bob Bostock's commentary on President Nixon's policy of détente and how that policy allowed thousands of Jews to escape Soviet oppression: The recent release of additional Nixon White House presidential documents and tapes...
Obama Echoes Nixon
"We will move forward together, or not at all," said President Obama in his State of the Union address. Readers of this blog may have noticed that this line echoed one from RN's 1969 inaugural: "To go forward at all is to go forward together." The similarity is not...
Video: RN’s Visit to Nixon Elementary School
The Bergen Record's Phil Jennings recounts President Nixon's 1989 visit to a New Jersey school that bears his name: Nixon, then 76 and living in Saddle River, applauded throughout several student presentations and appeared in a cheerful mood throughout his visit....
Video: The New Reagan Revolution
Michael Reagan, radio talk show personality, author, and son of President Ronald Reagan, discussed and signed copies of his newest best seller, The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan's Principles Can Restore America's Greatness Today on Tuesday night Reagan's...
Nixon in China: The Dinner Recreated
In the backdrop of the Metropolitan Opera House's premier of "Nixon in China," a Manhattan Chinese restaurant is recreating the actual menu from the opening day banquet. The New York Times reports: WHEN President Richard M. Nixon made his momentous trip to China in...
The 1972 SOTU and the Year of Progress
During last night's State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama called on both parties to put aside partisan politics, stand together to face the nation's greatest challenges, and seize "our generation's Sputnik moment." In 1972, RN articulated a similar...