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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...
James Cavanaugh Joins the Nixon Foundation Board
Dr. James H. Cavanaugh was named to the Nixon Foundation board of directors last week. A successful businessman and influential expert on health care policy, Cavanaugh was a key adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. He is now a managing director of Health Care...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Speaking To Today’s Concerns
This afternoon, our President, in a rather self-conscious move evoking unfortunate memories of Jimmy Carter's 1979 effort at what we would now call "reset," that resulted in the infamous "malaise" speech, appeared at a "town hall" meeting - not in some picturesque...
Casa Romantica Plans Western White House Exhibit
From today's OC Register: San Clemente's Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens is seeking the public's help to gather memorabilia and personal memories from the city's "Western White House" period for an upcoming exhibit. "Nixon in San Clemente: The Western White...
The Elder Statesman
As the Presidential helicopter gradually lifted off the White House lawn on August 9, 1974, they said he was through. Most predicted that Richard Nixon would be forever out of the American political scene. He had been through a roller coaster ride of a presidency...
More About Kutler’s Petition For RN’s Grand Jury Testimony
The petition filed by historian Stanley Kutler and several historical and archival organizations with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, asking that President Nixon's 1975 grand jury testimony about Watergate be unsealed, has been the subject of...