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Meet James Humes at the Nixon Library

Presidential historian has a riveting new book about RN's historic trip to China.

Historian James Humes will be at the Nixon Library on December 7th at 7 pm to discuss his new book “Only Nixon:” His Trip To China Revisited And Restudied.

Only Nixon is his riveting behind-the-scenes account of the circumstances that led to President Nixon’s opening to China in 1972.

In Only Nixon, Humes takes readers through the development and isolation of Communist China, RN’s reemergence on the world stage, and the diplomatic preparations for the first ever visit by an American president.

Humes notes that French President Charles de Gaulle had this advice for RN when he returned to high office: “If you are not ready to make war, make peace, but make it on a very strong basis, from strength rather than weakness.”

It was from this conversation where RN learned the word “détente,” French for “the lessening of tensions,” a diplomatic triumph that RN would not only later achieve with China and the Soviet Union but one that changed the course of history.

Humes will be introduced by the President’s younger brother Ed Nixon. His lecture will be followed by book signing.

Buy tickets here.

 

 

Jimmy Byron

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LETTER FROM YORBA LINDA #69 | November 23, 2009 border

RN, My Role Model

By Jimmy Byron, Intern for The Richard Nixon Foundation.
 

      I joined the Richard Nixon Foundation in June 2007, only weeks prior to the transformation of the private Nixon Library & Birthplace into the federally-operated Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I was fresh out of 8th grade. My meeting with Foundation Vice President Sandy Quinn was my first time in a board room. I had visited the Nixon Library twice before then – once with my family and later with my Grandpa – and these experiences left me with a new interest in President Richard Nixon, so I wrote a letter to the Library director asking about internships.

 

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