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Nixon, Lincoln, Et Al Before the High Court
The other day I came across a column in the Oklahoma City Journal-Record by Tom Wolfe - not The Right Stuff's author, but a civil litigator practicing in that metropolis. Mr. Wolfe's column, occasioned by the recent swearing-in of Justice Elena Kagan, concerned a...
38 Years Ago – RN Honors Admiral John S. McCain II
On September 1, 1972, RN spoke at the retirement ceremony of Admiral John S. McCain II , Commander of U.S. Forces in the Pacific and father of future Arizona Senator and then Vietnam War POW John S. McCain III. Speaking without notes at Hickam Air Force Base in...
Nixon and Fiorina
Dan Morain of The Sacramento Bee writes of the connection between RN and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina: President Richard M. Nixon took office pledging to remake the U.S. Supreme Court and appointed four justices during his first term. If Nixon had served...
RN and Latino Americans
In describing the GOP split on the politics of immigration, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarette blames RN and the "Southern Strategy" (though no such strategy ever existed) as the first cause: For more than 40 years, since the advent of the "Southern strategy" in...
39 Years Ago – RN Establishes Lincoln Historic Site
Thirty-nine years ago, President Richard Nixon, in the very same hall Abraham Lincoln used to deliver his famous “House Divided” speech that would lead to his nomination and election as President, remarked on signing a bill establishing the Lincoln Home National...
“If you give me a week, I might think of one.”
At a press conference fifty years ago today, the topic of Vice President Nixon's role came up. President Eisenhower had this exchange with Time's Charles Mohr: Q. Mr. Mohr: We understand that the power of decision is entirely yours, Mr. President. I just wondered if...
72 Years Ago – RN Exposes Alger Hiss
As the summer of 1948 uneventfully passed through July and entered August, Congressmen and Senators eagerly awaited a much needed respite to escape the sweltering heat characteristic of a Washington summer. As they lightheartedly made calls to reserve flights and...
First Lady Pat Nixon Graces Nixon Library
[youtube https://youtu.be/oUX2_5dD_Ks] August 17, 2010: Four Presidents have participated in the Nixon Foundation's Meet the Presidents series, but never a First Lady -- until First Lady Pat Nixon graced the East Room at the Nixon Library today. She spoke to children...
James J. Kilpatrick, 1920-2010
Yesterday, James Jackson Kilpatrick, whose journalistic career spanned nearly seven decades from 1941 until his final columns last year, died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, of congestive heart failure. He was ten weeks short of his ninetieth...
Video: First Lady Pat Nixon Graces the East Room
Four Presidents have participated in the Nixon Foundation’s Meet the Presidents series, but never a First Lady – until First Lady Pat Nixon graced the East Room at the Nixon Library today. She spoke to children and audience members about her rise from poverty to...