Robert Nesen Dies at 87

From a Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Robert Dean Nesen, assistant Navy secretary under President Nixon and ambassador to Australia during the first term of President Reagan, has died. He was 87. Nesen died Nov. 11 at his home in Thousand Oaks after a brief illness. A...

Doris Kearns Goodwin Tells Tales of Lincoln

Renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin lectured on her new blockbuster bestseller, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln at the Nixon Library on Wednesday morning before an East Room audience of more than 500, many...

Rose Mary Woods Remembered at Nixon Library

A private memorial tribute was held Thursday morning at the Nixon Library for President Nixon’s executive assistant, Rose Mary Woods, who passed away January 22 at the age of 87. The service reunited nearly 100 of Rose’s friends from the Nixon Administration, many...