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Dorothy Cox Donnelly 1912-2011
Dorothy Cox Donnelly - a key staff member to Congressman, Senator, and Vice President Nixon - has died. She was 99. In 1947, Donnelly starting serving as the freshman Congressman's personal secretary in Washington, where she was a witness to his formidable work in...
More On The “Nixon Shock” of 1971
This week two columns at Bloomberg.com discuss different aspects of the economic initiatives President Nixon launched in August 1971, which produced changes in the American economy which still reverberate today. One is by Joseph J. Thorndike, a leading tax historian...
Why I Registered to Vote
Saturday, I registered to vote. Having turned 18 in May, and anxious to let myself be heard – officially, of course – in an election for the first time, I had been excited to register but just did not know how. Luckily, I ran into some activists in front of a local...
Video: RN’s New American Revolution
On August 8 – the 42nd anniversary of President Nixon’s prime time address announcing his domestic policy – the National Archives and the Richard Nixon Foundation hosted New Federalism: Returning Power to the People, the 13th in a series of Nixon Legacy Forums....
Now More Than Ever
The four words above would be familiar to many who were around in the summer and fall of 1972. They were emblazoned on countless buttons distributed by Republican campaign offices around the country to promote the thirty-seventh President's re-election: in red letters...
The Road To “Sock It…To Me?”
Paul Keyes, who died in 2004 at the age of 79, was a comedy writer best known for heading the staffs that scripted the Tonight Show during Jack Paar's years hosting it, and that quintessential product of the late 1960s Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. He also was a...
Forty Years After The “Nixon Shock”
When the month of August is thought of in connection with Richard Nixon's Presidency, usually his resignation is the first thing that comes to mind. But August 15 will mark another anniversary - forty years since RN took to the airwaves to inform the nation that his...
President Ford’s Thoughtful Words About The Pardon
In another few days, thirty-seven years will have passed since the resignation of the thirty-seventh President. The recent passing of Betty Ford has reminded Rachel Patron, a writer for the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Sun-Sentinel, of the example of courage and...
“The Making Of The President” On DVD
Between 1961 and 1973, the late journalist Theodore H. White published four books about the Presidential elections from 1960 to 1972. The first of these, The Making Of The President 1960, about the contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, won the Pulitzer...
Just Released: Summer 2011 Newsletter
The Foundation’s quarterly newsletter was just mailed to its members, friends and supporters with announcements on upcoming activities and reports on recent events. It is also available online, read it now below! RN Newsletter Summer 2011