Nixon Today
Would the Sunnylands Summit be Happening had it not been for RN?
RN and PN with Walter and Leonore Annenberg at La Casa Pacifica in 1969. No it would not, on two counts; first, that it was RN’s diplomatic appointment of Annenberg that began his foreign service and second that it was RN who, of course, opened the U.S. and western...
Pat Nixon’s 101st
Today, March 16, would have been Pat Nixon's 101st birthday....but since her Irish-American father Bill Ryan always liked to think of her as his "Saint Patrick's babe born in the morn," she grew up celebrating her birthday on the 17th, and always preferred to put a...
Taki And Conrad Black On Nixon’s 100th
Although two months have passed since the centennial of President Nixon's birth, it is only in the last week that two writers of eminence have written about it. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the Greek shipping heir, essayist, and bon vivant, and Conrad Black (also known as...
Rethinking Nixon at Duke: A Student Speaks Up
RN pictured with the Duke Law School class of 1937. Mousa Alshanteer, a freshman at Duke University, writes that his school should have more appreciation for its most successful alumnus: Richard Nixon once described “the great American legend as to how presidential...
41 Years Ago – The Week that Changed the World
In the new Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit Patriot. President. Peacemaker at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, two bronze statues of Richard Nixon and Chou en-Lai compliment a mural of Air Force One after it touched down in Peking on February 21,1972. The...
A Philippine Memory Of The China Trip
Over at the website of the Philippine Star, columnist Carmen N. Pedrosa reminds her countrymen that China is the pre-eminent economic presence in today's Pacific Rim, and that American politicians, rather than blaming the PRC for all America's financial and social...
Memories of George McGovern
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation's capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His funeral in...
Rest In Peace, George McGovern: 1922-2012
Just before dawn this morning, former Senator George McGovern died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of ninety. Senator McGovern had been in gradually declining health for the last year or so, and three months ago had the bitter task of burying his son Steven,...
America’s Royal Couple
I had read on this Website that David and Julie Eisenhower would appear at the National Book Festival on Washington DC’s Mall Saturday, September 22. So I went over to say hi and to get them to sign their book “Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D....
9.4.1970 – The Flag Flies High
On September 4, 1970, President Nixon -- on the advice of his wife -- issued a presidential proclamation mandating that the American flag that flies high over the White House is to fly 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- regardless of whether or not the President is...