500,000 miles for a stamp
This memento, sold by the U.S. Postal Service, carries a 10-cent airmail stamp with first day of issue cancellations. Signed by President Richard Nixon and astronauts...
A question from tomorrow's voters
In 1956 Walt Disney wrote Vice President Richard Nixon and asked for an interview for a television program.
Artifact of Watergate
Claiming executive privilege, President Richard Nixon offered Watergate investigators transcriptions of his taped conversations about the 1972 burglary of the...
Celebrating on planet Earth
American citizens celebrated the Moon landing in many different ways—by holding Moon parties, by taking photographs, or, in the case of Thaddeus A. Zagorewicz, by...
Certification of the 26th Amendment
The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, was certified by General Services Administrator Robert Kunzig on July 1, 1971. In a ceremony at...
China, 1972
This menu was printed for a formal dinner hosted by President Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon for Chinese Premier Chou En-lai during the President’s trip to Beijing in...
Finding a Vice President
This letter from House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to President Richard Nixon lists Ford's recommendations to fill the Vice Presidential vacancy. President Nixon...