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7.19.1990 – Homecoming
On a hot California summer day in 1990, 50,000 friends and well-wishers – including four Presidents and their First Ladies – gathered to dedicate a facility to one of their own. They were joined by a full roster of diplomatic officials and members of Congress, as well...
Ed Nixon Tours Pat Nixon Centennial Exhibit
Continuing the celebration of First Lady Pat Nixon’s 100th birthday, Edward Nixon, the youngest brother of President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon’s brother-in-law, made a special visit to Yorba Linda to tour the widely-praised Pat Nixon Centennial Exhibit. He recalls meeting...
White House Portraits: Bringing First Families Together
In keeping with a longstanding presidential tradition, President and First Lady Obama welcomed their predecessors President and First Lady Bush back to the White House to view their official White House portraits last week. President and Mrs. Nixon extended a similar...
The Hiss Case — Still Relevant
It was the case that first introduced Richard Nixon, then a first-term congressman from California, to the national political stage sixty-four years ago. It made all of his subsequent political success possible. It also planted seeds of animosity toward him on the...
Nixon And Obama As First (Sports) Fans
There are a lot of differences in policy and style when it comes to the thirty-seventh and forty-fourth Presidents, but one thing they have in common is enormous interest in athletics. At the sports site Grantland.com, Bryan Curtis examines at length the remarkable...
George Weigel Remembers Chuck Colson
In the month since the passing of Charles W. "Chuck" Colson, the Special Counsel for President Nixon who subsequently became one of Christian evangelism's most dynamic figures, there has been much written about his two careers in politics and religion. Most of what...
Fox Recalls the Lasting Impact of Pat Nixon at Friendship Park
Fox News recently highlighted the work of Border Encuentro, a grassroots bi-national border group which advocates bringing Mexican and American people together at the border in San Diego to meet, play games, and share common interests. As the report notes, that is...
Ben Stein’s Memories Of The Nixon White House (And Elvis!)
On many, many occasions, latterday Renaissance man Ben Stein has written about his lifelong admiration for President Nixon and the days he spent as a speechwriter in the White House in 1973 and 1974. But earlier this week at...
“Frost/Nixon” In The OC
Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon, in the nearly six years since it premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London with Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella memorably playing the President, has been performed around the world, its popularity partly spurred by...
Ed Nixon Speaks In South Carolina
On Thursday at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, President Nixon's younger brother Edward spoke in the second of the Hipp Lecture Series on International Affairs and National Security. (The first event in this series was a debate among the Republican...