Sep 24, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
With the Middle East in turmoil, leaders and policy makers must look at Richard Nixon’s performance during the Arab-Israel crisis of the early 1970s. He not only solved a crisis, but also created a generation of peace. Learn more by watching the Nixon Legacy...
Sep 23, 2012 | News, Pre-Presidential Years
Exclusive to Nixonfoundation.org, Lee Huebner, former Nixon Speechwriter and current George Washington University Professor of Media and Public Affairs, has written an essay about then Senator Richard Nixon’s seminal Checker’s Speech given 60 years ago on...
Sep 15, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
There’s no denying that the big sports story coming out of Washington right now centers around the Nationals, now a cinch to go into the National League playoffs, and maybe even on course to do the unthinkable and bring the World Series to the nation’s...
Sep 15, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
The National Book Festival, introduced by former First Lady Laura Bush, sponsored by the Library of Congress, and held since 2001 every September on the National Mall, has long been established as one of the country’s premiere events for authors to meet...
Sep 15, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Today, exactly three weeks after his death, the cremated remains of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, were laid to rest somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean by his family and the crewmen of the USS Philippine Sea. Given Mr. Armstrong’s dislike...
Sep 10, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
In June 1959, Vice President Nixon and family, with Walt Disney and Art Linkletter opened the Disneyland Monorail. “Legend” Bob Gurr recounts the fun – and very humorous – event:
