Subject: John Taylor

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

  A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More than 1,120 days ago, Rohrabacher complained bitterly about “nit-picking” Americans who were then questioning the brilliance of Bush's Iraq War strategy. “I say, thank God that we have a preside

  July 19, 2007

• Excerpts: Part 2

  September 14, 2000

• Nixons Rap Sheet

  October 12, 2000

• Ladies and gentlemen, your Orange County 49ers!

  A story from my past came flooding back as I read Cyd Zeigler's Jock Talk Blog post riffing on a Forbes report that raised the possibility of the 49ers leaving San Francisco for the OC. Bernie Mullin, who runs the Atlanta-based Aspire Group, an industry consultant, tells Forbes Frisco, Buffalo and Minnesota are NFL teams that may leave their towns in a couple seasons for greener pastures in Las Vegas or Orange County. That got me thinking to several years ago, when I attended a Monday Night

  October 17, 2008

• Following the Dick Nixon Paper Trail

  Yesterday, the best investigative reporter in Orange County, R. Scott Moxley, shared something he saw on L.A. Observed that suggested Richard Nixon may have fibbed about his birthplace being the little white framed house that's now a Yorba Linda tourist attraction. That's because Dick's mom told the Los Angeles Times in 1959 that the then-vice president was born in a hospital. That got me thinking about something unusual about Nixon's birth I saw in Diggin' Up Gold on the Old Paper Trail;

  January 14, 2009

• The Nixon Makeover Worked!

  Visions of champagne flowing at the Richard Nixon Library and New Image Birthplace in Yorba Linda fill my brain with news of a Gallup poll that finds Americans believe history will judge George W. Bush more harshly than Orange County's Favorite Disgraced Son.WOO-HOO! The long, arduous post-resignation Nixon makeover finally bore fruit! Gallup: Although Bush is about tied with Nixon in perceptions that history will remember him as an outstanding or above-a

  January 16, 2009

• Executive Director John Taylor Leaving Nixon Foundation for Clergy

  The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced today that John H. Taylor, the foundation's executive director since it opened in 1990 and before that Nixon's chief of staff, is leaving Sunday to become the full-time vicar (or priest in charge) at St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School in Rancho Santa Margarita. Taylor, who is shown here with his daughter Valerie and the former president in the 1980s, on Jan. 20 sent a formal letter of resignation to board chairman Kris

  February 10, 2009

• Setting the Record Straight at the Nixon Library

  Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was not clear in an earlier post that called the foundation the "funding arm" of the Nixon Library. That mistake brought my boss a polite-but-swift letter from Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

  February 10, 2009

• John Taylor Describes His Last Day on the Job at Nixon Library

  John H. Taylor, who left his longtime gig as the executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation to lead St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School as the Rancho Santa Margarita church's vicar, describes the events of his last day on the job in Yorba Linda here.It was highlighted by a visit from Edward Nixon, Dick's younger brother and the sole survivor among Hannah and Frank Nixon's five boys, who recounted childhood tales, hawked his new book The Nixons: A Fami

  February 18, 2009

• [Scariest People 2008] The Ghost of Nixonstein

  October 30, 2008

• Orange Countys 31 Scariest People

  November 4, 1999

• Taylor Remade

  March 18, 1999

• Nixon, John Taylor and the Bohemian Grove

  Early 1990s Cave Man campers. Taylor is in red polo at far right, Nixon sits at left and Meese is behind him.In his August 2006 story "Bohemian Grove Exposes Itself!" the Weekly's Nick Schou interviewed an unnamed Orange County resident and former employee of the private, all-male, 2,700-acre forest retreat in Sonoma County that was founded in 1872 and served as stomping grounds for California's richest men. This was a coup because the Bohemian Grove's primary directive was that members and empl

  April 17, 2009

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 24, 2005

• Tricky Dicks

  March 17, 2005

• E-GATE

  February 12, 2004

• Archiving Nixon

  September 25, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 14, 2003

• Son of Scary

  November 7, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 22, 2002

• The Evil Among Us

  March 14, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• The Visible Invisible Man

  November 15, 2001

• Their Masters Image

  September 27, 2001

• Ketchup Time

  September 21, 2000

• Bigger Than the Beatles

  March 30, 2000

• All the President Meant

  November 25, 1999

• Even Then, a Son of a Bitch

  August 12, 1999

• Stand by Your, er, Dick

  February 4, 1999

• Taylorization

  March 19, 1998

• Taylor: Start the Feud With Jonathan Alter Without Me

  AlterIn his new collection of his Newsweek columns since the 1990s, Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture, Jonathan Alter revisits the Bushes, the Clintons, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra and Rush Limbaugh. John Taylor, who left as executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda to become an Episcopalian priest in Rancho Santa Margarita, was not only surprised to learn he turns up in the Alter tome but that he was apparen

  May 7, 2009

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009