Nixon Today
50th Anniversary of the Reversion of Okinawa Celebrated as a Landmark for U.S.-Japan Relations
His Excellency Koji Tomita, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, spoke at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on June 17, 2021, to mark the 50th anniversary of the far-reaching and impactful 1971 Reversion of Okinawa Agreement, which was negotiated,...
Tricia Nixon remembers her White House wedding, 50 years later
Tricia Nixon remembers her White House wedding, 50 years later Fifty years after her stunning and well-remembered White House Rose Garden wedding, I spoke exclusively with former first daughter Patricia Nixon Cox to reminisce about that magical day. By Jennifer...
White House Recognizes 50th Anniversary of President Nixon’s Indian Self-Determination Policy
Today the White House recognized the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's “Special Message to the Congress on Indian Affairs,” which served to herald a new era in Federal Indian policy: Indian Self-Determination. The Presidential Message on the 50th Anniversary read:...
Online Exhibit: Pat Nixon Delivers Disaster Relief to Peru
Fifty years ago this Sunday, America responded to a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Peru that killed 70,000, injured 50,000, and left 800,000 homeless, a global humanitarian disaster unlike any in recent memory. On June 28, 1970, the First Lady boarded an...
New Online Exhibit: Summer in the Parks with Pat Nixon
Fifty years ago today, the National Park Service hosted a novel activities fair for Washington, D.C.’s lucky residents. More than one thousand youngsters and their families participated in martial arts training, chopped and molded woodwork, listened and danced to...
Fifty Years Ago: President Nixon Visits the Lincoln Memorial
President Nixon's Historic Visit to the Lincoln Memorial May 9, 1970 An Impromptu Meeting In the early hours of May 9, 1970, as many as 100,000 protesters gathered in Washington for a demonstration against the Kent State killings and the Cambodian incursion. President...
Fifty Years Ago: President Nixon Announces Cambodia Incursion
Fifty years ago today, in an address to the nation from the Oval Office, President Nixon announced that US and South Vietnamese forces were conducting a limited operation against the North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries inside Cambodia that were being used to...
President Nixon’s Legacy of Parks
In the Statement on Signing Bill Designating the Ventana Wilderness, California, fifty years ago, President Nixon wrote, “Wilderness, unspoiled by man, is deeply rooted in American history and tradition. In the past, our task was to conquer it. Today we must struggle...
Apollo 13: Medal of Freedom Ceremony
Fifty years ago today, President Nixon awarded the Apollo 13 astronauts the Medal of Freedom, saying “Never before in the history of man have more people watched together, prayed together, and rejoiced together at your safe return, than on this occasion."