Nixon Presidential Library & Museum

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THE ARCHIVES

July 2 Materials Opening On July 2, the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum released nearly 100,000 pages of Presidential records and 80 hours of video oral histories at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. The bulk of the newly released documents come from the White House office files of former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who served in the Nixon administration from January 1969 to December 1970. The Moynihan papers detail his role in shaping administration policy on welfare reform, population control, civil rights, the environment and drug control. Also in this release are 5,000 pages of formerly classified national security records. These include U.S. intelligence assessments before and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Also in this release are materials relating to US-UK relations, including correspondence between President Nixon and Prime Minister Edward Heath; backchannel Soviet-Israeli relations; the status of Berlin; Soviet strategic weapons; and the Vietnam War. The Library has also released 47 video oral histories. These are available in the Library's research room. This is the first release of materials from this collection which was begun in November 2006 after Timothy Naftali became the director of the Nixon Presidential Materials Project and director-designate of the National Archives-administered Nixon Library. This release also includes 4 and 1/2 hours of audio recordings of briefings given by Donald Rumsfeld, Herbert Stein and others to summer interns in the Nixon White House. These are also available in the Nixon Library research room. You can the full press release, examine a full listing of newly available materials or download representative scanned documents.

SCHOOL TOURS

Thank You Students!

This school year more than 8,250 students toured the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum accompanied by some of the area’s best and brightest educators. We’d sincerely like to thank each and every one of them for being our Library’s V.I.P.’s.

This is your Library and these are your tours, if you have any suggestions, comments, or concerns please contact us at NixonEducation@nara.gov or call
714-983-9120. If you’d like to book a tour, just return our reservation form and our office staff will contact you shortly.

To see some of our adorable, enlightening, and much appreciated student letters, follow this link.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

This exhibit highlights the Nixon Library’s own archival holdings, including President Richard Nixon’s notes from his speech at a ceremony celebrating the Twenty-sixth Amendment. learn more>

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

"Treasures from the Vault”

Head of State Gifts from the Nixon Presidential Library Collection

For over thirty years, the artifacts from the Nixon presidency resided largely out of public view in gift vaults in the Washington, D.C. area. Today, after a cross-country move, all 30,000 of these items are now permanently housed here in Yorba Linda. In celebration, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum has designed Treasures from the Vault, a special exhibit showcasing some of the most interesting, unusual, and breathtaking gifts given to President Richard Nixon, First Lady Pat Nixon, and the Nixon family by world leaders. This show runs from September 4, 2010 through January 17, 2011 in the Special Exhibit Gallery.

Among the many highlights are:
• A stunning red silk ten-panel screen with embroidered cranes from the President of South Korea.
• A diamond watch from the Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia.
• An official painting of St. Peter’s Basilica from Pope Paul VI.
• A first century BC Ghandara carved stone relief depicting Buddha from Taxila, Pakistan.

In a special learning center kids can explore gifts from African leaders to learn about the history, cultures, and geography of Africa.

Daniel Schorr
1916-2010

On May 15, 2008, Library Director Tim Naftali interviewed Daniel Schorr for the Nixon Library. The Library, which is working to put all of its processed video oral histories eventually on the web, pays tribute to Mr. Schorr by posting this interview now. here

On the staff of the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1969-70, Vice President Richard Cheney was a White House Staff Assistant in 1971 and Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council from 1971 to 1973. To see his video oral history with the Nixon Library please click here.

In August 1971, Donald Rumsfeld briefed White House summer interns. Listen online to this briefing.

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