In her time in the executive mansion, Nixon acquired more than 600 pieces of furniture, paintings and other historic objects for the White House — more than any first lady before or since.

Nixon’s White House was far ahead of its time on climate research. Then it was abandoned A 1971 plan for a global carbon dioxide monitoring network never came to fruition.

U.S. President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon are seen as they visit the tombs of Chinese emperors of the Ming Dynasty, in the suburbs of China’s capital of Beijing, Feb. 24, 1972.

One had an address book with a White House phone number. Immediately after Nixon’s 1974 speech on the pending release of the tapes, the Tribune’s publisher, Stanton Cook, phoned Editor-in ...

In 1974 after he announced that he would be stepping down from the Presidency, Richard Nixon delivered his farewell address to the White House staff. Soulful songstress Roberta Flack dead at 88 A ...