Nixon Today
Rethinking Nixon at Duke: A Student Speaks Up
RN pictured with the Duke Law School class of 1937. Mousa Alshanteer, a freshman at Duke University, writes that his school should have more appreciation for its most successful alumnus: Richard Nixon once described “the great American legend as to how presidential...
41 Years Ago – The Week that Changed the World
In the new Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit Patriot. President. Peacemaker at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, two bronze statues of Richard Nixon and Chou en-Lai compliment a mural of Air Force One after it touched down in Peking on February 21,1972. The...
A Philippine Memory Of The China Trip
Over at the website of the Philippine Star, columnist Carmen N. Pedrosa reminds her countrymen that China is the pre-eminent economic presence in today's Pacific Rim, and that American politicians, rather than blaming the PRC for all America's financial and social...
Memories of George McGovern
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation's capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His funeral in...
Rest In Peace, George McGovern: 1922-2012
Just before dawn this morning, former Senator George McGovern died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of ninety. Senator McGovern had been in gradually declining health for the last year or so, and three months ago had the bitter task of burying his son Steven,...
America’s Royal Couple
I had read on this Website that David and Julie Eisenhower would appear at the National Book Festival on Washington DC’s Mall Saturday, September 22. So I went over to say hi and to get them to sign their book “Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D....
9.4.1970 – The Flag Flies High
On September 4, 1970, President Nixon -- on the advice of his wife -- issued a presidential proclamation mandating that the American flag that flies high over the White House is to fly 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- regardless of whether or not the President is...
Celebrating Pat Nixon Day
Parades, flags, ceremonies -- a wonderful homecoming no doubt. On August 2, 1960 thousands gathered to celebrate Pat Nixon Day in the state of Nevada -- most prominently, Pat Nixon. RN happened to be in the middle of a presidential campaign when this festival was...
Working For The Elder Statesman
At the Nixon Library last week, Fox News star Monica Crowley gave an exclusive talk on working for President Nixon as his foreign policy assistant from 1990 to 1994: Jonathan Movroydis is the Director of Communications at the Richard Nixon Foundation.
7.19.1990 – Homecoming
On a hot California summer day in 1990, 50,000 friends and well-wishers – including four Presidents and their First Ladies – gathered to dedicate a facility to one of their own. They were joined by a full roster of diplomatic officials and members of Congress, as well...