Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Proclamation 3944 – Thanksgiving Day, 1969 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to “set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of...
Nov 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street. (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, and a year later — on 12...
Nov 22, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The Beauty in the Beast: The Daily Beast’s choice of illustrations hints at the hatchet job that follows in the excerpt from Sally Denton’s new book about the 1950 California Senate Race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. The Daily Beast is...
Nov 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Groundbreaking for the George W. Bush Presidential Center —the latest addition to the National Archives’ system of Presidential Libraries— will begin a year from now. The designs of architect Robert A. M. Stern were unveiled in Dallas on Wednesday....
Nov 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago, on 19 November 1969, RN welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to the White House at the beginning of what would be a significant few days in the history of US-Japanese relations. Typically, the meeting was the result of long planning and...
