Nixon Today
Online Exhibit: Pat Nixon Delivers Disaster Relief to Peru
Fifty years ago this Sunday, America responded to a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Peru that killed 70,000, injured 50,000, and left 800,000 homeless, a global humanitarian disaster unlike any in recent memory. On June 28, 1970, the First Lady boarded an...
New Online Exhibit: Summer in the Parks with Pat Nixon
Fifty years ago today, the National Park Service hosted a novel activities fair for Washington, D.C.’s lucky residents. More than one thousand youngsters and their families participated in martial arts training, chopped and molded woodwork, listened and danced to...
Fifty Years Ago: President Nixon Visits the Lincoln Memorial
President Nixon's Historic Visit to the Lincoln Memorial May 9, 1970 An Impromptu Meeting In the early hours of May 9, 1970, as many as 100,000 protesters gathered in Washington for a demonstration against the Kent State killings and the Cambodian incursion. President...
Fifty Years Ago: President Nixon Announces Cambodia Incursion
Fifty years ago today, in an address to the nation from the Oval Office, President Nixon announced that US and South Vietnamese forces were conducting a limited operation against the North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries inside Cambodia that were being used to...
President Nixon’s Legacy of Parks
In the Statement on Signing Bill Designating the Ventana Wilderness, California, fifty years ago, President Nixon wrote, “Wilderness, unspoiled by man, is deeply rooted in American history and tradition. In the past, our task was to conquer it. Today we must struggle...
Apollo 13: Medal of Freedom Ceremony
Fifty years ago today, President Nixon awarded the Apollo 13 astronauts the Medal of Freedom, saying “Never before in the history of man have more people watched together, prayed together, and rejoiced together at your safe return, than on this occasion."
Podcast: Robert J. Brown on President Nixon and Civil Rights
President Nixon with Robert J. Brown, and his late wife Sallie Brown at the White House. (Collection of Robert J. Brown) Robert J. Brown is author of "You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World" On this...