Feb 8, 2014 | News, Pop Culture, The Nixons
Sunday, February 9, marks the 50th anniversary of the evening – also on a Sunday – when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collectively known as The Beatles, stepped onto the stage of CBS TV’s Ed Sullivan Show and, in less...
Feb 7, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
RN with Roy Wilkins speaking to the press in the Fish Room of the White House. On February 7, 1969, RN met with the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Roy Wilkins. Wilkins, known as the senior statesman of the...
Feb 7, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
As Chairman of the Ash Council, Roy L. Ash helped President Nixon see through his goal of executive reorganization. On February 6, 1971, President Nixon released a statement to the press regarding the public dissemination of Ash Council presidential memoranda on the...
Feb 7, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
RN and PN with King and Queen consort of Jordan, Hussein bin Talal and Alia al-Hussein, as they take their formal photo in front of the White House Grand Staircase before attending the State Dinner. The diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Kingdom...
Feb 1, 2014 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Sports
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
Jan 31, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
RN congratulating Warren E. Burger on his official appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court By Chris Barber In the course of a single term, the President will make hundreds if not thousands of appointments to various government positions. Of those...
