Newsweek Cover Story: RN’s Grand Strategies

Newsweek’s newest columnist, British historian Niall Ferguson, writes that President Obama’s national security team was caught totally by surprise during the recent sequence of events in Egypt, a crisis that President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger would have...

Happy Valentine’s Day From the Nixon Foundation

RN talks about the first time he met Patricia Ryan: One day in 1938, Mrs. Lilly Baldwin, the director of the local amateur theatre group, telephoned me to ask if I would like to play the part of a prosecuting attorney in their upcoming production of Ayn Rand’s...

RN and RR

As I listened to the well earned and much deserved tributes paid this past weekend to the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan on his centennial, and thought about RN’s coming 100th birthday in 2013, I recalled this anecdote from Reagan’s memoir: In 1962, while...

RN Helped Switch RR

In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan’s shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas.  Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN’s direction.  He...