Jun 1, 2013 | News, The Nixons
Jack Ohman, as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in 1980, earned the distinction of being the youngest American cartoonist to have his work nationally syndicated. Upon graduating, he was hired at once by the Columbus Dispatch, and after...
May 11, 2013 | China, News, The Nixons
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the ten-day visit of President Nixon’s grandson Christopher Nixon Cox, heading a party of forty visitors, to the People’s Republic of China. The group, traveling under the auspices of the Richard Nixon Foundation, included...
Apr 6, 2013 | News, The Nixons, Watergate
Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) is a name little known now except to students of Hungarian literature. But in a short story he wrote in 1929, he introduced a concept that he derived from studying the mathematics of probability, and which, for over a quarter-century, has...
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...
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...
Sep 24, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon, The Nixons
I had read on this Website that David and Julie Eisenhower would appear at the National Book Festival on Washington DC’s Mall Saturday, September 22. So I went over to say hi and to get them to sign their book “Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D....
