Jun 7, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, Library & Foundation, News Media, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Republican Party, The New Nixon, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
RN and PN with Walter and Leonore Annenberg at La Casa Pacifica in 1969. No it would not, on two counts; first, that it was RN’s diplomatic appointment of Annenberg that began his foreign service and second that it was RN who, of course, opened the U.S. and western...
Dec 4, 2012 | News, Republican Party, The New Nixon
A resident from Henderson, Nevada ponders the GOP’s past success in presidential elections: The last time a Republican won a presidential race without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket was in 1928, when Herbert Hoover captured the presidency. That was 84 years...
Oct 27, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Presidency, Republican Party, The Nixons
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation’s capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His...
Oct 21, 2012 | In Memoriam, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, Republican Party, The New Nixon, Watergate
Just before dawn this morning, former Senator George McGovern died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of ninety. Senator McGovern had been in gradually declining health for the last year or so, and three months ago had the bitter task of burying his son Steven,...
Aug 23, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Republican Party
On this day in 1972, RN triumphantly accepted the presidential nomination coming off a year of successes. The GOP Convention was held in Miami, as it was in 1968, and is the last time that the GOP convention was held in Florida — that is, of course, until next...
Jul 19, 2012 | Library & Foundation, News, Nixon Library Events, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Republican Party, The New Nixon
On a hot California summer day in 1990, 50,000 friends and well-wishers – including four Presidents and their First Ladies – gathered to dedicate a facility to one of their own. They were joined by a full roster of diplomatic officials and members of Congress, as well...
