Apr 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
From the earliest days as President, RN was determined to bring women into high level positions in his administration. On Tuesday we noted the forty-second anniversary of his appointment of Virginia Knauer as Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. ...
Apr 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-two years ago today —on 21 April 1969— President Nixon announced his choice of a thirty-six year old Chicago congressman —Donald H. Rumsfeld— to head the troubled and troubling Office of Economic Opportunity. RN turned out to be both a...
Apr 19, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-two years ago today, RN named consumer affairs expert Virginia Knauer to the top position in the federal government on consumer affairs. In a ceremony in the Rose Garden, the President watched as Mrs. Knauer was sworn in as his Special Assistant for Consumer...
Apr 17, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon became acquainted with Johnny Cash through their mutual friend Billy Graham. On 17 April 1970, at the President’s invitation, the Man in Black gave a concert for an invited audience in the East Room of the White House. Cash had married his Opry...
May 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Among the guests at the recent Nixon Center’s 2010 National Policy Conference in Washington were a Yorba Linda contingent: Nixon Foundation Board Chairman Kris Elftmann and his wife Linda, and Board member Hubert Perry. As an undergraduate in the early 1930s,...
