Online Exhibit: Pat Nixon Delivers Disaster Relief to Peru

Online Exhibit: Pat Nixon Delivers Disaster Relief to Peru

  Fifty years ago this Sunday, America responded to a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Peru that killed 70,000, injured 50,000, and left 800,000 homeless, a global humanitarian disaster unlike any in recent memory. On June 28, 1970, the First Lady boarded an...
New Online Exhibit: Summer in the Parks with Pat Nixon

New Online Exhibit: Summer in the Parks with Pat Nixon

Fifty years ago today, the National Park Service hosted a novel activities fair for Washington, D.C.’s lucky residents. More than one thousand youngsters and their families participated in martial arts training, chopped and molded woodwork, listened and danced to...