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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,…
Read MoreA Republican & A Contested Election: Class and Dignity
The 1960 Presidential election was the closest in our lifetime. Although John Kennedy was declared the winner of the November 8, 1960 contest, there were significant issues of actual fraud…
Read MoreChristmas with the Nixons
The holidays are a wonderful time to reflect and rejoice and to share the values that we hold dear to us. We think of Hope, celebrate love, bond with our…
Read MoreWhittier to the White House
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…
Read MoreWhittier 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.…
Read MoreWhittier 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…
Read MoreWhittier to the White House
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…
Read MoreWhy Nixon, Why Now?
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.
Read MoreMr. President: We Saved Your House
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…
Read MoreRIP Senator Bob Dole
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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