Jul 16, 2010 | News, Space, The New Nixon
The historical launch of Apollo 11, a NASA project to land the first humans on the moon and return them safely to Earth, occurred on July 16, 1969, at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:32 AM EST. On the eve of the launch, President Nixon expressed to the Apollo 11...
Jul 16, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Visitors came to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Nixon at the opening of the Nixon Library’s 20th Anniversary Friday, as daughter Tricia Nixon Cox laid a wreath at their memorial sites of her parents. Cox was escorted by the President’s younger...
Jul 15, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Although President Nixon’s speech on the 15th of July, 1971, only lasted three and a half minutes, it produced one of the greatest diplomatic surprises of the century. He began his speech in a Burbank, California, television studio at precisely 7:30pm. The purpose was...
Jul 14, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
PBS will be airing the second and third episodes of a documentary on the Reagan White House seen through the eyes of former Secretary of State George Shultz the two following Mondays. Shultz served as Secretary of Labor, Director of OMB, and Secretary of the Treasury...
Jul 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Legendary Yankee owner, entrepreneur and President Nixon’s good friend George Steinbrenner died this morning. He was 80. In 1973, Steinbrenner purchased the Bronx Bombers and over the next thirty-six years, brought them to the pinnacle of America’s...
