Richard Nixon - California's Native Son
Author Paul Carter delved into Richard Nixon’s California roots for a deeper understanding of his journey from a Whittier law practice to the White House. The Richard Nixon Foundation in Yor…
245 viewsAuthor Paul Carter delved into Richard Nixon’s California roots for a deeper understanding of his journey from a Whittier law practice to the White House. The Richard Nixon Foundation in Yor…
245 viewsThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made pu…
116 viewsSpeaking at the U.S. Capitol before a joint session of Congress, President Richard Nixon discussed his initiatives regarding foreign relations, increased funding for law enforcement, and pro…
600 viewsPresident Richard Nixon’s firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on October 20, 1973, set off a chain of political and legal events that left his presidency hanging in the bala…
607 viewsEmory University Professor Patrick Allitt taught a class about President Richard Nixon, his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, and some of their key foreign policy initiatives. Profe…
1,010 viewsIrwin Gellman re-examined the 1960 presidential campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, and the close outcome of the election. The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted this event at …
670 viewsIn 1964 and 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called on Americans' “better angels” with speeches on the “Great Society” and immigration. His successor, Richard Nixon, asked for support in 1969 …
373 viewsHofstra University U.S. history professor Carolyn Eisenberg talked about the Vietnam War during the Nixon/Kissinger years. This virtual event was hosted by the Wilson Center in Washington, D…
388 viewsBob Bostock, a head speechwriter for George W. Bush administration EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, talked about the EPA’s origins and the environmental politics and policies of the…
282 viewsAttorney Rufus Edmisten served as the deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee, which was chaired by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin. In his book, That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Ta…
404 viewsPresident Nixon’s daughter, Tricia, married Edward Cox on June 12, 1971, in the first Rose Garden wedding. Their reception followed in the East Room. The White House Naval Photographic Cente…
1,933 viewsIn his first address to the nation on Vietnam, President Richard Nixon proposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam as long as the North Vietnamese removed their forces as well.…
1,532 viewsThe Federalist Society hosts a legal panel to discuss recently revealed documents used by prosecutors investigating Watergate and suspected wrongdoing by President NIxon and his administrati…
171 viewsFormer House Newt Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) paid tribute to former President Richard Nixon’s legacy at the Grand Strategy Summit, hosted by the Richard Nixon Foundation. He praised the former …
219 viewsVice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, traveled around the world in July of 1956 with stops in Hawaii, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, and Turkey. Highli…
482 viewsGeoff Shepard was the youngest lawyer on President Nixon’s White House staff and is the author of The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President. He gave his account of…
671 viewsDwight Chapin talked about his years with Richard Nixon. He worked on Mr. Nixon’s 1962 California campaign for governor and was with him in the White House until the Watergate scandal led to…
436 viewsJohn Roy Price, a senior domestic policy adviser to President Nixon, gave a behind-the-scenes view of the 37th president’s domestic agenda -- which included guaranteed family income, a natio…
474 viewsReporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein talked about their reporting for the Washington Post of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building on …
2,694 viewsAmerican University professor Joseph Campbell taught a class about the 1972 Watergate scandal and, what he calls, “the myth of heroic journalism.” He argued that the unraveling of the Waterg…
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