Happy Birthday, Mrs. Nixon!

Today, Pat Nixon would have turned 99.  As was her custom, however, she would have marked the occasion tomorrow – on St. Patrick’s Day.  As to why, her father, Will Ryan, once explained it to her brother, Bill: “Well, she was there in the morning, my St. Patrick’s...

Docent Alice Armstrong Dies at 84

Memorial services 11:30 am, Sunday, March 20 at the Nixon Library The Guild is mourning the loss of one of our founding Docents Alice Armstrong. Alice was a member of the Guild from the opening of the Library in 1990. She was a founding Docent, charter member and life...

A Nixon Documentary in Progress

Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS  that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated...

Video: Donald Rumsfeld Talks “Known and Unknown”

“The road not traveled is always smoother,” former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told a packed audience at the Nixon Library Wednesday evening during his first West Coast public appearance since the release of his new memoir, Known and Unknown. Like many of his...