Jul 19, 2012 | Library & Foundation, News, Nixon Library Events, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Republican Party, The New Nixon
On a hot California summer day in 1990, 50,000 friends and well-wishers – including four Presidents and their First Ladies – gathered to dedicate a facility to one of their own. They were joined by a full roster of diplomatic officials and members of Congress, as well...
Jun 26, 2012 | Library & Foundation, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
Continuing the celebration of First Lady Pat Nixon’s 100th birthday, Edward Nixon, the youngest brother of President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon’s brother-in-law, made a special visit to Yorba Linda to tour the widely-praised Pat Nixon Centennial Exhibit. He recalls meeting...
Dec 12, 2011 | Library & Foundation, News
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...
Apr 30, 2011 | Library & Foundation, News
North Carolina, the “Tar Heel State,” is the birthplace of two Presidents, James Knox Polk and Andrew Johnson. (Andrew Jackson is recorded as having been born in South Carolina, near its northern border, but some historians still argue that the seventh...
Jul 16, 2010 | Library & Foundation, News
This weekend marks the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Richard Nixon Library, and the Orange County Register today devotes three articles to it. In one article, reporter Jessica Terrell describes the events planned to mark the occasion this weekend,...
Apr 28, 2010 | Library & Foundation, News
RN Birthplace and Reflecting Pool with Visiting Mallard Library Courtyard Courtyard Colonnade The Pat Nixon Rose (1972) in the First Lady’s Rose Garden 22 April 2010