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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...
Video: Bruce Herschensohn Gives Nixonian Solution to Egyptian Crisis
Author, commentator and former Special Assistant to President Nixon Bruce Herschensohn reported on the recent sequence of events in Egypt Tuesday. His talk in the East Room focused on what President Nixon would have done, if confronted with a similar power struggle...
Newsweek Cover Story: RN’s Grand Strategies
Newsweek's newest columnist, British historian Niall Ferguson, writes that President Obama's national security team was caught totally by surprise during the recent sequence of events in Egypt, a crisis that President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger would have ultimately been...
Happy Valentine’s Day From the Nixon Foundation
RN talks about the first time he met Patricia Ryan: One day in 1938, Mrs. Lilly Baldwin, the director of the local amateur theatre group, telephoned me to ask if I would like to play the part of a prosecuting attorney in their upcoming production of Ayn Rand's...
RN and RR
As I listened to the well earned and much deserved tributes paid this past weekend to the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan on his centennial, and thought about RN’s coming 100th birthday in 2013, I recalled this anecdote from Reagan’s memoir: In 1962, while...
RN Helped Switch RR
In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan's shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas. Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN's direction. He writes: One...