Posts by Paul Carter
Presidential Golf & A Wedding
On August 23, 1969, President Richard Nixon was on a working vacation at the Western White House (La Casa Pacifica) in San Clemente when he decided to play a round…
Read MoreNixon’s Fighting Spirit at the Hollywood American Legion Stadium
Richard Nixon had a fighting spirit, dating back to his formative years when he and his Whittier College Poets football teammates took on the defending national champion USC Trojan football team in…
Read MoreDick Nixon: A Southern California Piano Man
When one thinks of Richard Nixon, “musician” is likely not the first word that comes to mind. But he was. And his first love was the piano. From the early…
Read MoreAnother Nixon Biography Based on a False Premise
The latest biography on Richard Nixon, Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas, falls into the same trap as every other modern biography on America’s 37th President. Too little time was…
Read MoreELVIS PRESLEY: CIA SPY
When the National Archives first admitted, in 1988, that the White House meeting between President Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley had been photographed, the iconic image of the President and…
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