Mar 16, 2013 | News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
Today, March 16, would have been Pat Nixon’s 101st birthday….but since her Irish-American father Bill Ryan always liked to think of her as his “Saint Patrick’s babe born in the morn,” she grew up celebrating her birthday on the 17th, and...
Mar 9, 2013 | China, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Although two months have passed since the centennial of President Nixon’s birth, it is only in the last week that two writers of eminence have written about it. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the Greek shipping heir, essayist, and bon vivant, and Conrad Black (also...
Mar 2, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Pennsylvania is, for my money, the most beautiful state east of the Mississippi, as I was reminded again during a recent two-day trip that took me to State College, home of the Nittany Lions. Driving through that landscape of mountains and forests, down those roads...
Feb 23, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday, Rex W. Scouten died in a hospital near his home in Fairfax, Virginia, at the age of 88. Although Mr. Scouten’s name may be familiar only to a smallish minority of America – which was the way he always preferred it – those who are...
Jan 9, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Today marks 100 years since the thirty-seventh President of the United States was born in a house his father built in Yorba Linda, California. Here is the acceptance speech Richard Nixon delivered as the Republican nominee in 1968 – still considered one of the...
