Video: Honest Abe Visits the East Room

Five hundred guests welcomed President Abraham Lincoln to the East Room today, where he spoke to youngsters about his life and how his early upbringing impacted his career choices and presidency. Honest Abe’s presentation was the fourth in the Nixon Foundation’s...

RN’s 1960 Acceptance Speech

Fifty years ago this week, RN accepted the Republican Party’s 1960 presidential nomination.  One passage in his acceptance speech is striking: And now I want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as...

RN’s Early Efforts For Middle East Peace

Since his entrance onto the international stage as Vice President under President Eisenhower, President Nixon strived to maintain a healthy relationship with Middle Eastern leaders, particularly Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. At the time of his ascension to the...

Video: Ingraham Opens “The Obama’s Diaries”

Nearly 1,000 people packed the East Room at the Nixon Library Monday night to see radio talk show host and Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham discuss and autograph her #1 New York Times bestseller, The Obama Diaries, a satire on President Obama’s ambitious...

Video: The Birth of the Nixon Doctrine

As the Apollo XI crew prepared for its final descent back into Earth’s atmosphere, President Nixon embarked on a world tour to visit islands in the southern Pacific and countries on mainland Eurasia. The trip also allowed Nixon to greet the Apollo XI astronauts when...

Daniel Schorr and “Follow the Money”

Daniel Schorr, who just passed away, performed a valuable service to Nixon buffs by discovering that Deep Throat never really said “follow the money.”  While writing one of his NPR commentaries years ago, he wanted to find out where it appeared in the book...