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Richard Nixon’s Right-Hand Man Was . . . a Woman

By Paul Carter | October 4, 2023

Evlyn with the 1954 Nixon Campaign plane

The Story of Evlyn Dorn Rose Marie Woods was Richard Nixon’s longtime executive secretary. But Nixon’s actual “right-hand man” was Evlyn Dorn, a quiet, determined, adventurous woman who was with…

ELVIS PRESLEY: CIA SPY

By Paul Carter | April 1, 2016

Two men shaking hands in front of flags.

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…