Mar 31, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
More than 2,500 students from twenty Southern California cities and their teachers toured the Nixon Library Wednesday for the annual Children’s Water Education Festival. It will continue tomorrow with the participation of an additional 2,500 students. Presented...
Mar 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The recent health-care bill that President Obama signed may have its similarities to the proposals President Nixon unsuccessfully presented to Congress in the early Seventies, but those are far from the only pages from the 37th Chief Executive’s playbook that...
Mar 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Last night I read Born Standing Up, actor Steve Martin’s account of the seventeen years he spent making his way up the ladder of standup comedy. It’s a rather worthwhile book. In well-written prose, replete with many funny passages, Martin describes the...
Mar 24, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, RN issued a Statement About Desegregation of Elementary and Secondary Schools. The almost 17,000-word document surveyed the the issue beginning with the first Brown decision in 1954. Clearly, and in very plain language, the President surveyed...
Mar 20, 2010 | News, Space, The New Nixon
The fortieth anniversary last year of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 stirred interest in the mineral artifacts brought back by that mission and the five others that reached the lunar surface. President Nixon, in the months after Apollo 11’s return, sent a...
