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Video: Hub Fans Bid Nixon Fan Adieu
A big topic of dinner-table conversation on the evening of September 27, 1960, was the first Kennedy-Nixon debate that had taken place the day before. Many Americans wondered how the two candidates would do when next they met. But the following evening, the attention...
39 Years Ago – RN Changes U.S.-Japanese Relations
From NBC's Anchorage, Alaska affiliate, KTTU: Thirty-nine years ago Sunday, a significant state visit by Emperor Hirohito of Japan changed the relationship between the U.S. and Japan -- and President Richard Nixon was in Anchorage to meet him. Watch the video here....
9.27.72 – RN Creates First Anti-Terrorism Initiative
With unrest at home, an economic slump and two wars in the Middle East, our 21st century America faces several challenges. Among the most prominent is the ever-present threat of terrorism. On September 27, 1972, President Richard Nixon issued a statement in regard to...
The Road To The ’60 Debates
As today's fiftieth anniversary of the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon concludes, it's worth thinking about the long, long process that led to it. The series of debates across between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln became part of American...
Video: Meet the Press Commemorates 50 Years
In a special edition of Meet the Press co-sponsored with the University of Virginia, UVA's Larry Sabato, former RN aide Patrick Buchanan, former JFK aide Ted Sorensen and journalist Sander Van Oker remember the first RN-JFK debate: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news,...
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program…
On a late September Monday evening fifty years ago today, 80 million Americans (a number approaching half the population of the United States at the time) sat before their flickering black and white television sets to watch the first televised presidential debate in...
Fifty Years After: 1960’s Kennedy-Nixon Debates
On September 26, 1960 cathode rays changed presidential politics forever. For on that Monday evening Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy faced off on the first televised presidential debate in American campaign history. Neither Nixon nor Kennedy was a stranger to debates....
The 1960 Debates: Did JFK Win on Visuals?
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the first television debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. In Slate, David Greenberg writes about the familiar claim that JFK won the debate among those who saw the debate on TV while RN won among those who only heard it...
Checkers — The Moment Politics Met Television
One day in 1974, as Spring began to give way to Summer, Frank Gannon—wordsmith and White House Fellow—took a walk in Washington, largely to get away from the stress induced by the Nixon White House’s ever-increasing Watergate milieu. He found his way to an old...
Expert: Library’s Rose Gardens Among America’s Best
David Austin Roses' Michael Marriott, one of the world's experts on quality roses and gardens, visited the Nixon Library's gardens Tuesday. His visit came at the end of a 9 state tour - plus Canada - of America's premier rose gardens. The Library's roses, Marriott...