Mar 16, 2006 | Foundation News, Library & Foundation
In advance of the arrival of President Nixon’s White House materials, preparations are underway at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace to house the millions of textual documents, audio-visual materials and gifts of state. The Yorba Linda institution...
Mar 9, 2006 | News, The New Nixon
By Eleeza V. Agopian and Cindy Arora, The Orange County Register: RIVERSIDE – The Army colonel was eating dinner with his family in his Virginia home, dreading the shrill sound of the fire-engine red rotary phone in his bedroom. “I knew it was coming,”...
Jan 17, 2006 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post staff writer: Edwin S. Cohen, 91, an eminent tax lawyer who became undersecretary of the Treasury in the first Nixon administration and composed tax-tinged doggerel, died Jan. 12 at his home in Charlottesville. He had heart disease....
Jan 13, 2006 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
Patricia Hitt, 87; Served Under Nixon, Worked on His Campaigns: By Jon Thurber, Times Staff Writer Patricia Reilly Hitt, who as an assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare was the highest-ranking woman in President Nixon’s first administration, has...
Jan 13, 2006 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
Nixon campaign aide Patricia Hitt dead at 87, The Balboa Island resident encouraged women to get involved in politics: By ROBIN HINCH The Orange County Register Patricia “Pat” Hitt Survivors: Sons, Rick and John Hamilton; sister, Kathy Miller; five...
Nov 18, 2005 | Foundation News, Library & Foundation
From a Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Robert Dean Nesen, assistant Navy secretary under President Nixon and ambassador to Australia during the first term of President Reagan, has died. He was 87. Nesen died Nov. 11 at his home in Thousand Oaks after a brief illness. A...
Nov 16, 2005 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
Renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin lectured on her new blockbuster bestseller, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln at the Nixon Library on Wednesday morning before an East Room audience of more than 500, many...
Nov 16, 2005 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
By Andrew H. Malcolm, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer: Manny Ornelas’ list of undone “honey do” chores is growing steadily at home. Dick Van Rennes finds himself painting helicopter rivets in his dreams. And Rudy Lerma is so busy he has had to...
Nov 7, 2005 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
A private memorial tribute was held Thursday morning at the Nixon Library for President Nixon’s executive assistant, Rose Mary Woods, who passed away January 22 at the age of 87. The service reunited nearly 100 of Rose’s friends from the Nixon Administration, many...
Nov 4, 2005 | Foundation News, The New Nixon
The distinguished 15th chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard B. Myers, accepted the Nixon Library’s 2005 Architect of Peace award at a black-tie candlelight dinner in the Library’s elegant new White House East Room on Thursday, November 3, the same...
