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A Nixon Documentary in Progress
Brian L. Frye and Penny Lane are making a documentary about RN, using a previously-untapped source: EVERYBODY KNOWS that during the Watergate investigation, the FBI confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon's secret tape recordings. But the FBI also confiscated 204...
Video: Donald Rumsfeld Talks “Known and Unknown”
“The road not traveled is always smoother,” former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told a packed audience at the Nixon Library Wednesday evening during his first West Coast public appearance since the release of his new memoir, Known and Unknown. Like many of his...
Nixon Center Becomes Center For The National Interest
HONORS SENATE REPUBLICAN WHIP JON KYL ANDJULIE NIXON EISENHOWER WASHINGTON, March 8, 2011—At a glittering black-tie gala dinner tonight, The Nixon Center announced its transition to become the Center for the National Interest. The Center also presented its annual...
Nixon’s Advice On How To Deal With Libya
It has been very clear, since the end of February, that the crisis in Libya is becoming an event that, without decisive handling by the world's major powers, could endanger not only the global economy's halting steps to recovery from the 2007-2009 recession, but what...
42 Years Ago – RN Establishes Plan for Minority Enterprise
On March 5, 1969, RN signed Executive Order 11458, establishing plans for a national program for minority enterprise. The program would lay the groundwork for an Office of Minority Enterprise within the Department of Commerce tasked with expanding opportunities and...
Video: Presidents’ Day at the Nixon Library
Thousands of youngsters and their parents visited the Nixon Library on Monday to see a Mount Rushmore of Presidents discuss their greatest achievements during their life in public office. Presidents’ Day events also included a special presentation by Presidential...
39 Years Ago – The Week that Changed the World
Thirty-nine years ago this week, President Nixon made the trip that shocked the world, extending his hand to China’s more than 1 billion people and initiating the break up of Soviet global dominance. The move – derived from a grand strategy years in the making – was...
Priscilla-Joy Everts, 1918-2011
Priscilla-Joy Everts, Social Secretary to Vice President Nixon and close friend of the Nixon Family, passed away early this year. She was 92. As an integral apart of the Vice President's small but every effective staff, she managed Mrs. Nixon's correspondences and...
OCR: Resurrected presidents, first ladies appear at Nixon Library
Michael Mello, OC Register: Abigail Adams spent her Monday morning examining the exhibits at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. She tactfully smiled and patiently answered questions from other visitors, strolling through the museum as a proper first lady...
Winter 2011 Newsletter Just Released!
The Nixon Foundation has just released its inaugural 2011 Legacy and Vision newsletter filled with memories from 2010, information on upcoming events, and the announcement of new plans for the Foundation's commitment to preserving and communicating the legacy of the...