RN’s Response to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill

For the last three months, the nation has been consumed with the consequences of offshore oil spills. The BP Gulf of Mexico spill has yet to end; on April 20, a deep-sea oil rig exploded and killed eleven workers, causing millions of gallons of oil to spew into the...

Video: Roosevelt Rocks the East Room

President Theodore Roosevelt gave a presentation to youngsters today in the East Room of the Nixon Library, where he spoke about his time in elected office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War, and tenure as the...

Legacy of Parks

Environmental conservation was at the forefront of Richard Nixon’s domestic legislative agenda. In his 1971 State of the Union message, RN declared: “I will propose programs to make better use of our land, to encourage a balanced national growth–growth that will...

He Will Be Missed

Early this morning, the world was shaken with the news that Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria were killed when their plane crashed while attempting to land amid thick fog in Western Russia. Ninety-seven people were killed in the crash, including...

Pat Nixon’s Goodwill Mission to Comfort a Nation

PN climbs through rubble in the town of Yungar during her goodwill mission to Earthquake devastated Peru in May 1970. As most know, a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the South American coastal nation of Chile last week. Thanks to moderately-strict building...