On Thursday, the Foundation and National Archives hosted Nixon campaign and White House officials who worked with President Nixon to end the draft and create the modern, professional, and all-volunteer force fighting for America today.
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Roy Ash, former Nixon White House Budget Director and Chairman of President’s Advisory Council on Executive Reorganization, died last month. He was 93. Bloomberg has more:

Family, friends, and close aides celebrated President Nixon’s 99th birthday at the Nixon Library and around the country Monday. The ceremonies also inaugurated the centennial of First Lady Pat Nixon, who turns 100 this March. The all-day events began at the memorial sites of President and Mrs. Nixon, where Admiral Mike Shatynski (U.S. Navy), represented...

Tomorrow, December 23, marks four decades since President Nixon put his pen to paper and signed into law the National Cancer Act of 1971, which marks one of the most important and imperishable legacies of his Administration. It dramatically increased funding to the National Cancer Institute and provided for programs in collaboration with other state...

Our President’s daughter was invited to join actress Meryl Streep in the lead feature of January’s Vogue Magazine! The story and photo essay detail a bipartisan group of women who are spearheading the campaign for a National Women’s History Museum on the Mall in Washington.  Click here to read the whole article.

From the school house to the White House: In an exclusive interview with TNN, William Gavin recounts his storybook rise from high school English teacher to presidential wordsmith, and how he honed his craft as a protégé of America’s 37th President. His new memoir, Speechwright: An Insider’s Take on Political Rhetoric hit bookshelves in...

The Richard Nixon Foundation honored Orange County’s heroes who lost their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. The OC Register’s Scott Martindale reports: One by one, the mothers and fathers stepped forward to receive a hug, a thank you and a Christmas ornament engraved with their child’s name on it.

The Richard Nixon Foundation and the National Archives co-presented a Nixon Legacy Forum in Washington Monday. The subject was the Nixon Administration’s relationship with organized labor, and how they sought a just and more equitable workplace, while balancing the need for economic growth and employment for all Americans seeking work. The...

It is less than two weeks before Christmas, and no doubt some readers of this blog, for whom no holiday season is complete without some gifts that bring the thirty-seventh President to mind, are a little nervous. Let’s say you’ve given everyone you know who would truly appreciate such a present a coffee mug with RN meeting Elvis on it. ...

One of the longest serving House Sergeant-at-Arms and former Secret Service agent Bill Livingood is retiring after five decades of public service. Politico reports:

During this month the big political story on the Republican side of the 2012 presidential race has been the steady upward move of former Rep. Newt Gingrich in opinion polls.  Following a rather shaky start, his ability to display his wide knowledge of policy topics and historical context in the series of GOP debates, and his well-developed oratorical...

At National Review, author Conrad Black writes that America’s 37th President was one of the best ever:

In the Wall Street Journal, former Nixon aide Frank Gannon reviews novelist Anne Beattie’s new book,  Mrs. Nixon: The real problem with “Mrs. Nixon” is that Ms. Beattie doesn’t like her subject very much. She is upfront about her distaste for RN (“I spontaneously recoil from any image of Richard Nixon”). She says,...

Nixon White House domestic policy staff met for an annual gathering in Washington last week. The event included remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, Nixon Foundation Chairman Ron Walker, board directors Larry Higby and Tod Hullin, Fox News reporter James Rosen, and Nixon speechwriter and three-time presidential candidate Pat...

The Richard Nixon Foundation and National Archives co-presented a Nixon Legacy Forum on President Nixon’s Supreme Court nominations Thursday. Hosted at the Archives’ William G. McGowan Theater in Washington, Participants included Nixon Speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and White House, administration, and congressional legal experts Wally Johnson,...