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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...
Video: Morris and Hewitt Talk Education in the East Room
Fox News contributor Dick Morris and nationally syndicated talk radio show host Hugh Hewitt packed the East Room Thursday evening for a townhall on national educational reform. Presented by KRLA 870 and moderated by talk radio show personality Kevin James, their...
Schwarzenegger Remembers
In a tribute to Sargent Shriver, his father-in-law who just passed away, Arnold Schwarzengger recalls their first meeting: Sarge was a political man, so around the dinner table when the conversation turned to politics, I was ready to participate. With passion and...
Eisenhower’s Other Warning Fifty Years Ago
Anyone having the opportunity to interact with someone who is, say, more than eighty years old—and therefore remembers the Great Depression—knows that people back in those days thought differently about money and material things than most of us do today. Fifty years...
A Burglary in 1960
In The Washington Post, Mark Feldstein tells how the 1960 Kennedy campaign did opposition research on RN's links to Howard Hughes. How did JFK's campaign obtain this incriminating evidence? By paying the contemporary equivalent of $100,000 to a Los Angeles accountant...
In Memory of Judy Lucas
The Docent Guild has lost its First Lady Judy Lucas. Judy personified the definition of a lady. She was a woman of refinement and gentle manners. Judy was a member of the Docent Guild for eleven years. She was very active in the leadership of the Guild serving as...