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Statement on Opening of Watergate Gallery
Statement by Ronald H. Walker,Chairman of the Board The Richard Nixon Foundation March 31, 2011 Nearly 40 years after President Nixon left office, Watergate remains a controversial and much-studied subject. It is however, just one chapter in the enormously...
Remarks by Assistant U.S. Archivist Sharon Fawcett on Watergate Exhibit
Assistant U.S. Archivist Sharon Fawcett's remarks at the Watergate exhibit press preview on March 31: Good Morning. I’m Sharon Fawcett and I am the Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries. I want to welcome all of you – students, docents, staff, and the press -...
Watergate at the Nixon Library Timeline
The following is a timeline showing the history of the Watergate exhibit at the Nixon Library:
The Draft of the Original Watergate Exhibit
When the Nixon Library opened in July 1990, the single largest exhibit devoted to one subject was Watergate. The exhibit presented President Nixon's perspective on Watergate, 16 years after he left office. It remained in place for 17 years, until it was removed in...
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...