Richard Nixon

Mars or bust, Buzz Aldrin says

2013-06-12 13:12:00

Dancer, rapper, and, oh yeah, Man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin is talking, but are the right people listening? One of the original moonwalkers (“Michael Jackson always did it backwards!” Aldrin complained) challenged the United States to pick...

Floyd Abrams, America's free speaker

2013-06-12 00:00:00

Where there's smoke arising from a free-speech matter, you're likely to find the fiery attorney Floyd Abrams. He's blazed a trail for freedom of the press from the Pentagon Papers case to protecting reporters' sources. He's just as incendiary when he's...

Sunnylands presidential summit spotlights estate's public mission

2013-06-07 05:00:00

Even when it was just an architectural glimmer in the eye of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, the desert estate where President Barack Obama will greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was never in danger of being confused with a mere vacation house....

The real IRS scandal

2013-05-29 00:00:00

Should you need a license from the government to exercise free speech? The real scandal at the Internal Revenue Service should be seen not as a left-versus-right issue but instead as infringement on the 1st Amendment. The people targeted were political...

Trying too hard to deal with Iran

2013-06-06 00:00:00

Iran's presidential election is again inviting speculation about which candidate can nudge the Islamic Republic toward moderation and pragmatism. Such conjectural games miss the point that the theocratic state is defined by an ideology that demonizes...

Targeting tax-exempt groups

2013-05-14 00:00:00

One of the great outrages of the Watergate scandal was President Nixon's use of the Internal Revenue Service to harass his political opponents. Yet some IRS officials appear to have forgotten what happens when tax law enforcers pick their targets based on...

Barbara Walters: Let the victory lap begin!

2013-05-13 10:40:00

Let the Barbara Walter's farewell tour begin! Monday's edition of "The View" opened with the show's founder and star fixing the camera with that fearless don't-let-the-strange-absence-of-wrinkles-fool-you-I've-been-on-television-for-50-years gaze and...

Richard Nixon's grandson tours China to recall historic 1972 visit

2013-05-04 12:57:00

BEIJING — “He would be amazed,” exclaimed Christopher Nixon Cox, digging into a plate of fried rice over lunch in a starkly modern restaurant with black-clad waiters and white walls at the foot of the Great Wall of China. Cox was...

Newton R. Russell dies at 85; veteran California legislator

2013-05-21 16:10:00

Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La Ca�ada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85. A...

Syria blames Israel for new explosions in Damascus

2013-05-04 19:21:00

BEIRUT -- Huge explosions were reported early Sunday in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and state-run media blamed Israel for a strike on a defense research facility outside the capital. State television said Israeli rockets had targeted a research...

In L.A., a bad case of Anthony Weiner envy

2013-05-22 12:36:00

Well, Los Angeles has a new mayor. It’s nice-guy Eric Garcetti, who defeated nice-woman Wendy Greuel. If you’re not from here, you’ve probably never heard of either of them. If you are from here, you probably didn’t even vote --...

PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine

2013-05-16 21:43:00

Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin re-creates his moonwalk at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Ed Nixon, the youngest and only surviving brother of President Nixon, is introduced at the ceremony.

2013-05-23 00:00:00

"Nearly 1,400 members of the '400' gathered at the Century Plaza Thursday night to hear President-elect Richard M. Nixon at the Cardinal's Community Dinner, a $250 to $1,000-a-plate affair to raise funds for a new Santa Maria Hospital and Clinic in East Los Angeles.

2013-05-11 16:18:00