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  • SOURCE: Associate Press
    9/23/2020

    Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon ’80s tale

    Letters between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in the 1980s, recently released by the Nixon Library, show the two men bonded over themes that resonate today: a shared distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as “props,” and more.

  • SOURCE: ABC News
    10-28-16

    Concern Raised Over New Name of Nixon Library Theater

    Placing Fred Malek's name on the theater that shows an introductory film about Nixon is "outrageous," Timothy Naftali, a history professor at New York University and former library director, said on Twitter last week.

  • 3-23-15

    The Secret Nixon Library

    by Anthony Clark

    Until Watergate stopped him, Nixon planned to build his presidential library on federal land confiscated from Camp Pendleton. This would have been illegal, but Nixon figured out a way around the law, complete with a cover-up.

  • SOURCE: Orange County Register
    1-9-15

    Not all loyalists disapproved of Nixon library's Naftali

    The bitter conflict between Timothy Naftali, federal director of the Nixon Library & Museum from 2007 to 2011, and the private Nixon Foundation lingers over the Yorba Linda institution, and resolving that friction is a key goal for the incoming director.

  • SOURCE: AP
    11-6-14

    Nixon Library Releases Previously Classified Audio

    The segments include a reference to top-secret intelligence briefings the Nixon administration provided to China, and reveal Nixon's private musings as he wrangled with the then-Soviet Union over limiting nuclear weapons.

  • SOURCE: Nixon Library
    8-21-13

    Nixon Library releases final batch of White House tapes

    On August 21, 2013, the Nixon Library opened the final installment of 94 White House Tapes, as well as formerly restricted and unprocessed textual materials.White House TapesThe final installment of 94 tapes cover the period from April 9 – July 12, 1973, and cover discussions of foreign policy issues including: implementation of the Vietnam peace settlement and the return of Prisoners of War (POWs); tensions over Most Favored Nation tariff status for the Soviet Union; and the history 1972 “Soviet Summit” between the United States and the U.S.S.R. Domestic conversations include Presidential appointments and personnel management, energy policy, wage and price controls, campaign finance reform, Wounded Knee, and Watergate.Listen to the newly released tapesListen to sample foreign policy clips on the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum's YouTube Channel

  • SOURCE: LA Times
    3-1-13

    Jon Wiener: Another Watergate Gap

    The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum opened a new exhibit in Yorba Linda and online Feb. 15, "Patriot, President, Peacemaker." It covers Richard Nixon's entire life, like the permanent installation there, and claims to present "a fuller picture" than ever before.