WE NEED POLITICIANS SUCH AS RICHARD NIXON

With the presidential election in November 2024 rapidly approaching, the coming months will present difficult choices for the electorate. August 9, the forty-ninth anniversary of Richard Nixon resigning the presidency,…

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Whittier to the White House

A brown house with a tree in front of it.

Tour Stop #4 Frank Nixon and Hannah Milhous met on Valentine’s Day 1908 at the Whittier First Friends Church. Frank walked Hannah home that evening and they dated every day…

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Whittier to the White House Tour Stop #3 Just as Richard Nixon had a meteoric rise in American politics, so did his younger brother Don Nixon in business in Whittier.…

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Whittier to the White House

Tour Stop #2 The Dinner Bell Ranch is Richard Nixon’s political birthplace. In August 1945 lieutenant Richard Nixon was still in the navy, having served in the South Pacific in…

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Whittier to the White House

A Victorian style house with a large yard.

Tour Stop #1 Original Milhous House Milhous residence, 13542 Starbuck Street. Franklin Milhous shipped all the lumber and materials from Indiana to build this beautiful home in 1897 when he…

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Why Nixon, Why Now?

Writer and historian of Richard Nixon.

I have been researching and writing about Richard Nixon since 2009. I am an attorney by training, not a professional writer. Well, that is not entirely true, since I am under contract with Potomac Books to publish Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son, I am a professional writer now. But growing up in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, admittedly in a Republican household, I never envisioned writing a biography on Richard Nixon. Truth be told, I never envisioned writing a biography of anyone.

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Mr. President: We Saved Your House

A house with a blue roof and white trim.

As reported in The Whittier Daily News, the proposed demolition of a significant historical home of Richard Nixon has been stopped!!! The Whittier City Council recently denied an application to…

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RIP Senator Bob Dole

President Nixon and Senator Dole, Oval Office,

I first met Senator Bob Dole in the summer of 1991 when I was interning on Capitol Hill. Walking past his Senate office in the Capitol building, for some reason…

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