Jan 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Rose Mary Woods died five years ago today, on 22 January 2005. “Those who didn’t know her might think her life was all about a gap on a tape. How wrong they would be.” Rose Mary Woods at her desk in her office in the West Wing in 1974. She was born in...
Jan 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today —on 22 January 1970— RN delivered his first State of the Union Message to a Joint Session of Congress. The year before, the outgoing, diminished LBJ had delivered an elegiac, wistful SOTU describing what might have been and how he...
Jan 21, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The former President of the American Cancer Society, Dr. Alva Hamblin Letton died last week at the age of 93. He was present and gave remarks at President Nixon’s signing of the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971. Dr. James Cavanaugh spoke about RN’s...
Jan 20, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Jan 18, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Activist and all around divisive figure Earl Ofari Hutchinson offers readers his latest tirade at the HuffPo: On the campaign trail in 1968, Nixon lambasted his Democratic opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, for the failed Great Society programs and big...
Jan 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This article is Part II of a series on how RN received the news. Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages – in spite of constant efforts to keep them...
