Jan 4, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In the Daily Mirror section, the LA Times’ resident archivist Larry Harnisch takes a look at Vice President Nixon’s record setting flight aboard an American Airlines 707 from Los Angeles to Baltimore fifty years ago today. It took no longer than 3 hours...
Jan 3, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
With the coming of a New Year we are again reminded that on January 1, 1959, now 51 years ago, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rolled into Havana and established a Communist government in the Western Hemisphere. Castro is now enjoying his senior status as a thorn...
Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
I have become…convinced that the 1970’s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never. —President Nixon’s Signing...
Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post, Ray Brescia writes of the phrase “Now, More Than Ever,” or NMTE: Interestingly, it was not George W. Bush who introduced the phrase to the political discourse. In fact, it was another Republican President, Richard Nixon, who used...
Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
RN 1970: A photograph by portraitist Merrett Smith. On the night of 6 February 1969 RN was preparing for an interview with TIME and LIFE columnist Hugh Sidey. He wrote three pages of thoughts and resolutions regarding the responsibilities and opportunities of a...
