“Nixon’s Life”
Building on the more personal side of RN — featured in younger brother Ed Nixon’s talk at the Nixon Library yesterday and Frank Gannon’s 1984 interviews — the increasingly useful Hulu.com has a...
View ArticleA Career That Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
Three months ago I wrote a post about a Philadelphia newspaper’s profile of Jennie Eisenhower, President Nixon’s granddaughter whose stage career has taken her to theaters around the country. Starting...
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Edward Cox To Be New York State GOP Chairman
The New York Times’ Danny Hakim has written an interesting and timely profile of Ed Cox. Accompanying the article is a slide show of several photographs, beginning with Mr. Cox’s wedding to Tricia...
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It’s A Family Affair
The New York Times continues to chronicle the election of Ed Cox as the Chairman of the New York State Republican Party. That was unanimously accomplished this morning at a meeting in Albany. The...
View Article“Seeing The Writing On The Wall”
Tony Panaccio at postchronicle.com has an article about Ed Nixon, the last of the five brothers that included the 37th President. and author of The Nixons: A Family Portrait. In the article Ed speaks...
View ArticleEd Nixon On The Record
The President’s youngest brother and author of the new book The Nixons: A Family Portait, Ed Nixon, is featured in the Examiner.
View ArticleNixon’s New Jersey Friend Looks Back
Last week I wrote about a retired Atlantic City firefighter named Richard Nixon, whom the New York Times’s website had profiled in a series about everyday Americans with Presidential names. Today’s...
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Everybody Knows The Bird Is The Word
A couple of months ago the First Lady made a guest appearance on the opening episode of the 40th anniversary season of Sesame Street. (And last month I saluted the charming PSA that resulted.) Sesame...
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November 1969 — Giving Thanks
A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 — their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 —their first year in the White House— the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any...
View ArticleThe Mission Inn At Christmas
From the Los Angeles Times comes this article about the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, California which has just set up its much-cherished “Festival of Lights” for another holiday season. Nixon...
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12.22.1968
On December 22, 1968, the President’s youngest daughter Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower. RN in his own words: My daughter Julie first met David Eisenhower at his grandfather’s second inauguration...
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12.25.52
‘Twas the night before Christmas: this photograph of PN (holding Checkers), six-year-old Tricia, four-year-old Julie, and the thirty-eight year old Vice President- Elect was actually taken on 20...
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Auld Acquaintance — Memories of 1969
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a brief (and highly selective) look back forty years ago — to 1969. Many other important and memorable events occurred — but their photos haven’t yet reached the...
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RN’s Son-In-Law Gives Annual Legacy Lecture
Edward F. Cox, the son-in-law of Richard Nixon and newly elected Chairman of the New York Republican party gave this year’s Nixon Legacy lecture in the East Room at the Nixon Library. RN’s son-in-law...
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Remembering Rose Woods
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...
View ArticleA Race – And Candidate – To Watch
Nearly 65 years after his famous grandfather was first asked to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representative from that state’s 12th district, 30-year old Christopher Cox has put...
View ArticleChris Cox On Running For The House
For Christopher Nixon Cox, advantages come from the wisdom of his grandfather: As for Nixon’s grandson, Mr. LaValle said he would not receive deferential treatment because his father was state...
View ArticleManaging The Nixon Oval Office
On Presidents’ Day 2010, more than five thousand packed the Nixon Library and were welcomed with cherry pie and appearances by Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. Then at...
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3.16.10
Pat Nixon was born ninety-eight years ago today, on 16 March 1912. My mother was born near midnight on March 16th, 1912, in a miner’s shack high in the mountains of eastern Nevada. Although it was...
View ArticleAnother President With “Game”?
Many articles about President Obama have suggested that he is the first President to display any considerable skill as a basketball player. (Herbert Hoover used to toss a six-pound medicine ball over a...
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