Nixon Today
Michelle Obama Follows in Pat Nixon’s Footsteps
Former members of the Nixon White House staff discuss First Lady Pat Nixon's role on the 1972 trip to the People's Republic of China. By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. As Michelle Obama makes her well-publicized...
Recognizing First Lady Nixon’s Accomplishments on Her 102nd Birthday
By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. In celebration of what would have been First Lady Pat Nixon's 102nd birthday, let us remember some of her remarkable accomplishments as First Lady. - She was the most traveled first...
Nixon and Connally
The Nixons and Connallys at the Connally ranch in August 1972. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s appointment of John Connally as the United States’ sixty-first Secretary of the Treasury and the early stages of what, at least at the time and to...
Nicholas Griffin’s New Book “Ping-Pong Diplomacy”
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
Richard Nixon and the Creation of the Modern Presidency
Richard Nixon and the Creation of the Modern PresidencyNixon Legacy ForumFranklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, PAJanuary 29, 2014 An on-stage discussion featuring Andrew M. Rouse, Executive Director of President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization...
“It Was Nixon Who Gave Life To The Civil Rights Act”
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift's Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in the...
MLK & RN: Creating a More Just Society
A version of this story ran Martin Luther King Day 2013: VP Nixon with MLK in 1957 “Let me say how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,” were the words of...
Young Richard Nixon’s Fullerton Home Remembered
The Fullerton home where Richard Nixon lived with his aunt Carrie Wildermuth while he attended Fullerton Union High School was commemorated on January 9, marking RN's 101st birthday. Former California State Assemblyman Chris Norby led the effort to get the 92-year old...
Dr. Will Swift on ‘Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
[youtube https://youtu.be/FGxslFyS07U] January 11, 2014: Author Dr. Will Swift discusses the marriage of President and First Lady Pat Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
40 Years Ago – RN Signs the Endangered Species Act
On December 28, 1973, RN pledged to protect the nation's endangered species from extinction. The move was part of his sweeping environmental agenda which included the National Environmental Protection Act and the creation of the EPA, the Clean Air and Clean Water...