Dec 4, 2017 | Foundation News, Nixon Library Events
“Thank you for an excuse to visit this Library for the very first time,” said General David Petraeus, a retired four-star Army General, and one of the most consequential and effective military leaders of our generation. Speaking in a packed East Room at the Richard...
Nov 30, 2017 | Foundation News, Pat Nixon
The Pat Nixon White House Gingerbread House harkens back to 1972 “How many of you can bake like this?” the First Lady asked, teasing the White House press corps during her annual tour of the Executive Mansion’s Christmas decorations. “My husband tried to pick off a...
Nov 28, 2017 | China, Reports
Waking Up to the China Challenge: Are the U.S. and China Destined for War? Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum November 17, 2017 Program Transcript • Video Overview and Objectives This report is based on the views expressed during a presentation on November...
Nov 21, 2017 | Foundation News, Nixon Library Events
Vintage Model Trains Have Returned to Yorba Linda Thanks to the generosity of Ruth Ann Segerstrom Moriarty After a three-year hiatus, vintage model trains have filled the Nixon Library once again as the centerpiece of A Whistling White House Wonderland, a...
Nov 21, 2017 | China, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/yBLDd9ZJ9lY] Endgame in Pyongyang: The U.S., China, and the Geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum October 25, 2017 Synopsis • Program Transcript In his speech to the United Nations on September 24,...
Nov 21, 2017 | China, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/1K8IUjr2iss] Waking Up to the China Challenge: Are the U.S. and China Destined for War? Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum November 17, 2017 Synopsis • Program Transcript In his influential new book “Destined for War: Can...
Nov 20, 2017 | China, News
Waking Up to the China Challenge: Are the U.S. and China Destined for War? Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum November 17, 2017 Synopsis • Video Participants Dr. Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of Harvard Kennedy...
Nov 14, 2017 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Wilderness Years
6 November 1962: Vice President Nixon gives his concession following his loss to Edmund “Pat” Brown in the 1962 California Gubernatorial race. He admonished the press in attendance for their disproportionate negative coverage of his campaign, and that this...
Nov 10, 2017 | Middle East, News
By Jason Schwartz After several weeks of fighting in October 1973 between Israel and the adjacent Arab nations, the Yom Kippur War had reached conditions which threatened further escalation. Each side had respectively been resupplied by their ideological...
Nov 10, 2017 | Middle East, News
President Nixon arrives in Israel on June 16, 1974. By Jason Schwartz Ripe with political and ideological tension, outstanding disputes between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations once again came to blows on 6 October 1973. The expansion of Israeli controlled...
