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NARA’s Watergate Exhibit Opens this Week
The new Watergate Gallery created by the National Archives opens Thursday, March 31, 2011. The Richard Nixon Foundation was asked to comment on a draft of the exhibit’s text. The Foundation’s response to NARA’s request was sent to Assistant Archivist for...
The Children’s Water Education Festival Returns to Nixon Library
Thousands of Orange County youngsters and their teachers visited the Nixon Library on Wednesday for the 15th annual Orange County Children's Water Education Festival. Brought to the Nixon Library by the leadership of Congressman Gary Miller, the two day event - which...
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Nixon!
Today, Pat Nixon would have turned 99. As was her custom, however, she would have marked the occasion tomorrow – on St. Patrick’s Day. As to why, her father, Will Ryan, once explained it to her brother, Bill: “Well, she was there in the morning, my St. Patrick’s...
Docent Alice Armstrong Dies at 84
Memorial services 11:30 am, Sunday, March 20 at the Nixon Library The Guild is mourning the loss of one of our founding Docents Alice Armstrong. Alice was a member of the Guild from the opening of the Library in 1990. She was a founding Docent, charter member and life...
Girl Scouts’ and Pat Nixon’s 99th Birthday Celebration
Nearly 4,000 packed the Nixon Library for the celebration of the Girl Scouts' and First Lady Pat Nixon's 99th birthdays. In keeping with this year's theme of "Celebrating Differences," Orange County area scouts set up interactive booths throughout the Library for the...
A Nixon Documentary in Progress
Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon's secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated 204...
Video: Donald Rumsfeld Talks “Known and Unknown”
“The road not traveled is always smoother,” former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told a packed audience at the Nixon Library Wednesday evening during his first West Coast public appearance since the release of his new memoir, Known and Unknown. Like many of his...
Nixon Center Becomes Center For The National Interest
HONORS SENATE REPUBLICAN WHIP JON KYL ANDJULIE NIXON EISENHOWER WASHINGTON, March 8, 2011—At a glittering black-tie gala dinner tonight, The Nixon Center announced its transition to become the Center for the National Interest. The Center also presented its annual...
Nixon’s Advice On How To Deal With Libya
It has been very clear, since the end of February, that the crisis in Libya is becoming an event that, without decisive handling by the world's major powers, could endanger not only the global economy's halting steps to recovery from the 2007-2009 recession, but what...
42 Years Ago – RN Establishes Plan for Minority Enterprise
On March 5, 1969, RN signed Executive Order 11458, establishing plans for a national program for minority enterprise. The program would lay the groundwork for an Office of Minority Enterprise within the Department of Commerce tasked with expanding opportunities and...