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March 14, 2006
Barbecuing Dogs and Blowing Up Frogs
It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one ... More >>
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March 20, 2006
Decoding the Times' cry for help
As R. Scott Moxley observes at the end of his dissection of Dana Parsons' attempt to slap a coat of whitewash on the lazy and error-filled reporting of the Haidl rape case Parsons has filled his L.A. Times column with, the Times has a new slogan for its Orange County advertising: Now More Than Ever. ... More >>
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June 30, 2006
Yogi Unbearable
The name Richard Nixon is not one you'd normally expect to find in a newspaper story about a yoga guru, but there it was in this morning's Los Angeles Times' story on yoga guru Bikram Choudhury and his problems with the city of L.A. Choudhury's been charged with 10 criminal safety violations at one ... More >>
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December 18, 2006
A Very Richard Nixon Xmas
Mark Giselson, former City Pages blogger and all-around angry Norwegian, reminds us that 34 years ago today saw the beginning of the special contribution to Christmas history made by local boy turned felonious president, Richard M. Nixon (now Yorba Linda's leading roadside attraction). Up until 19 ... More >>
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January 9, 2008
Do you know Dick? Nixon that is.
In honor of our 37th president's would-be birthday today we here at the Weekly have decided to create a quiz to test our readers' knowledge of their only locally born president, Richard Nixon. He's from Yorba Linda, donchaknow. 1. What is Dick's middle name? A. Homer B. Bart C. Smithers D. Milhous ... More >>
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December 12, 2008
Not Trickie Dick's Western White House But an Amazing Facsimile
Variety columnist Bashirah Muttalib has a fascinating piece about the Herculean task the Frost/Nixon location manager had in trying to film key Orange County locations depicted in the film, which is set in the late 1970s.The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda opened its doors for lo ... More >>
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December 19, 2008
Deep Throat Dies
The famed and enigmatic anonymous source credited with grinding Richard Nixon's perfidious presidency to a halt, died yesterday in northern California. A career FBI director, W. Mark Felt Sr. confessed to being "Deep Throat" in 2005, after 30 years of denial. He was the man, he admitted, who walked ... More >>
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January 9, 2009
Meet The New Dick, Same As The Old Dick
Because today would have been Richard Milhous Nixon's 94th birthday, I've decided to roll out something I was not prepared to roll out: TheNewDick.org. It's my new website/blog that strives to present all the ways the 37th president of the United States, despite being very dead ... More >>
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January 14, 2009
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 to ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 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, a ... More >>
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January 21, 2009
You'd Better Have a Really Good Mortgage Broker
A new estate has popped up on the grounds of Richard Nixon's former Western White House in San Clemente, and it's for sale. The property that after the Stubbly One's 1969 arrival hosted dignitaries, treaty signings and the Frost-Nixon interviews was subdivided into 16 lots in 1980. The new Sp ... More >>
Blogs
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 n ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2009
Historians: Lots of Presidents Worse Than OC's Favorite Disgraced Son
It was mused here previously that, based on their respective (low) popularity ratings, George W. Bush was more despised upon leaving the presidency than Orange County's favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon, which prompted our tip of the press hat to the Richard Nixon ... More >>
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February 24, 2009
Nixon and Disneyland: 2 OC Institutions Together at Last, er, Again
Artist, marketing man and blogger extraordinaire Dave Decaro posts on the Disneyland Art Blog, the Jungle Cruise Blog, the Haunted Mansion Blog, the Pirates of the Caribbean Blog and 2719 Hyperion (for the Hollywood address of Walt Disney Studios). "Yes, I spend way too much time at Disneyland," Dec ... More >>
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March 4, 2009
Nixon, Watchmen, Queerty, Archie Bunker and Tobias Funke
Frost/Nixon may have gotten skunked at the Oscars, but it did win "Best Picture for Grown-ups" in AARP the Magazine's awards for movies those over 50 enjoy. Otherwise, the media's fixation with Opie's flick is waning, but not with Richard Nixon himself, who is rolled into the plot line of ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
Nip Tuck
Dick Tuck is not a new procedure offered by your plastic surgeon but a "legendary political hoaxster" and former frequent tormentor of Orange County Disgraced Favorite Son Richard Nixon, whose visit from Arizona to a friend's home in Colorado drew the ink-stained wretches of the Aspen Daily--and ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager Rate Obama at Nixon Library
Awe-inspiring? Vomit-inducing? Noise-abatement requiring? You be the judge as the 12-city national tour of News Talk 870-KRLA's syndicated radio triple threat--Irvine attorney-Chapman U law prof-MSM hater Hugh Hewitt, Zionist-unilateralist-culture war-declarer Dennis Prager and some guy named Michae ... More >>
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March 31, 2009
Couple Sees Nixon Everywhere They Go in OC
Yank Lisa and Brit Andy, who consider themselves the unlikliest people in Northern California to have became ranchers and farmers, headed south for the late winter--and seemingly encountered Dick everywhere they went. In "The Good, the Bad and Richard Nixon" on their Left Coast Cowboys site, the ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2009
See Dick Wakesurf
Being cold below ground in Yorba Linda does not stop our favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon from finding himself in the news. The hits just keep coming, don't they? But far more fascinating than Dick being blamed for the Cambodian genocide, joined in the hereafter by Watergate- ... More >>
Film
December 4, 2008
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen Capture a Summit of Egos as 'Frost/Nixon' Goes From Stage to Screen
Being cold below ground in Yorba Linda does not stop our favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon from finding himself in the news. The hits just keep coming, don't they? But far more fascinating than Dick being blamed for the Cambodian genocide, joined in the hereafter by Watergate- ... More >>
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March 13, 2008
Girl Scout Wookiee Time!
Star Wars Meets Girl Scouts
News
May 3, 2007
Teaching an Old Dick New Tricks
Thank God weve still got Dick Nixon to kick around
Blogs
April 17, 2009
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 ... More >>
Columns
January 11, 2007
Diary of a Mad County
Jan. 3-Jan. 9
Features
October 19, 2006
Fun With Dick
No. 8: Our borderline-deceitful presidential library should be a true landmark
News
September 7, 2006
Ending War 101
UCI profs book could be the real roadmap to peace
Columns
February 23, 2006
Commie Girl
Make Levees Not War
We go a-visiting at the Nixon Library
Columns
June 9, 2005
The Good Thief
Why Deep Throat deserves a national holiday
Columns
March 24, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
Why Deep Throat deserves a national holiday
News
March 17, 2005
Tricky Dicks
Academics ask Congress to deny Nixon Library presidential documents after conference cancellation
Film
January 6, 2005
Sock It . . . To Me!?!
Niels Muellers The Assassination of Richard Nixon
News
June 24, 2004
Were No. 2!
Nixon Library delights in Bushs lameness
Columns
April 22, 2004
Earth Daddy
Denis Hayes organized the first Earth Day, and all he got was this lousy planet
News
December 25, 2003
Daddy, Are You Listening to Nixon?
What its like to listen to the former president all day, every day
Blogs
April 17, 2009
Nixon Library Museum Store is Green With Ennui
The private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation (not to be confused with the public Richard Nixon Library and Museum) has really gotten into the spirit of Earth Day. The foundation is directing shoppers to its cash cow, the museum store, with an email blast that states:Celebrate Earth ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2009
Richard Nixon in the Rotten.com Library
I'm sure Clockwork Coker will wax wonderfully about the latest secret recordings of former President Richard Nixon, but I also want to use the occasion of this round of the gift that keeps on giving to draw attention to Nixon's entry in the Rotten.com Library. Don't worry: you can click on the entry ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
Man on the Moon
Nixon Library
Blogs
August 19, 2009
Dishney: 1959 Monorail Dedication With Uncle Dick and Uncle Walt
The more you know: Richard Nixon, being the only Orange Countian ever elected to the office of President of the United States, is--expectantly--also the President with the closest ties to Disneyland. Nixon first visited the park in August 1955, not long after the grand opening of Disneyland, and wa ... More >>
News
September 3, 2009
Gore Vidal, George McGovern and Spirit of Ted Kennedy Take Over the Nixon Library
The more you know: Richard Nixon, being the only Orange Countian ever elected to the office of President of the United States, is--expectantly--also the President with the closest ties to Disneyland. Nixon first visited the park in August 1955, not long after the grand opening of Disneyland, and wa ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2009
Is Obama Our Nixon and Fox News Our New York Times?
Is Barack Obama this generation's disgraced Orange County favorite son Richard Nixon?And does that make Fox News the Dick-era equivalent of the Pentagon Papers-publishing New York Times?Well, Bebe Rebozo, see if you can follow the bouncing twisted-logic ball . . .
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Incredible Tricky Dicky Official White House Ornament Deal
You can order this year's official White House Christmas Ornament direct for $23.The same ornament is available from the Richard Nixon Foundation for $26.95.The latter is the best deal.
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Busy Days Ahead at the Nixon Library
A birthday celebration, the arrival of important records and some good old fashioned revisionism: yep, busy days are ahead at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. (Which is where you'll also find the creepy bust above.)
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Lincoln, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt Walk Into the Nixon Library ...
Dead presidentsAbraham Lincoln's birthday is today, George Washington's is Feb. 22 and who the hell knows when Teddy Roosevelt was born. Still, all three very dead presidents converge Monday--Presidents' Day--at the presidential library and museum dedicated to another expired commander-in-chief, ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Nixon in China
Terrace Theater
Blogs
July 1, 2010
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney and Richard Nixon's Corpse, Together at Last
Right about now, Gary Sinise, Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson, "Coach K" Mike Krzyzewski, Liz Cheney, Laura Ingraham, Chuck DeVore and many more participate in an event hosted at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda that's hosted by Andrew Breitbart a ... More >>
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July 16, 2010
Celebrate Nixon Library's 20th Anniversary, But Remember His Pal George Steinbrenner, Too
A weekend of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Richard Nixon's library--or "The Dick," as the hepcats call it--kicked off this morning with the laying of wreaths at the graves of the 37th president and his wife Pat.However, before we get to the other fun-filled festivities that are in s ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Tricky Dick Nixon Quote of the Week!
Sweaty Dick"Think about it. I am not a Nixon loyalist. I am not even a Republican. I am gay. I am from Canada. I was 12 years old when Richard Nixon resigned."--Timonty Naftali, director of Orange County's Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in a recent New York Times story about a ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Timothy Naftali, Nixon Library Chief, is Leaving
"One lie I corrected was this big."Timothy Naftali, the George H.W. Bush biographer and respected historian the National Archives chose to run the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda after the disgraced 37th president's loyalists from a private foundation first built and operated the ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Tim Naftali Won't Be Kicked Around Anymore at Nixon Presidential Library
Burglar in ChiefSix years ago--to the abject horror of Orange County's blue hair right wingers, historian/author Tim Naftali became the first legitimate director of Richard Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Linda.A version of the library had been run by Nixon apologists whose brazenly absurd ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Chapman Forecast That's Only Been Wrong Once Since 1944 Has GOP Presidential Win
A Chapman University presidential forecast equation calls for a Republican presidential win in the November 2012 election.The Anderson Center for Economic Research data does not identify specific candidates, only the incumbent from each party. And before you label this the fantasy of a GOP-leanin ... More >>
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