Historical Happenings: When San Clemente Was the Center of the Political World
How Nixon came to choose San Clemente as his base is as interesting as it was improbable, Tom Marshall reports ...
Tag: Richard Nixon
When Surfing and Golf Collide
A hazy recollection of playing golf with the 37th President By Jake Howard Eleven-time world champ Kelly Slater has been ...
Western White House Featured in Newport Beach Garden Tour
Featured Image: The former San Clemente home of President Richard Nixon, La Casa Pacifica, is one of three locations that ...
Historical Happenings: Mystery of President Nixon’s Will: SOLVED
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Attached to a wall outside the Andalusia Restaurant in San Clemente’s Old Town Plaza is an ...
Nixon’s Western White House on Sale for $65 Million
By Shawn Raymundo The landmark San Clemente home where former President Richard Nixon and his family would find respite—commonly referred ...
CoastLines: A Wild Tale that Had an Asterisk in San Clemente
Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles How did a one-time Harvard professor turned grinning hallucinogenics guru become the target of a ...
Historical Happenings: Entertainers Quick to Discover San Clemente
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Yes, President Richard Nixon is San Clemente’s most famous former resident. But Hollywood stars discovered ...
Historical Happenings: Unable to Say Goodbye to a Local Legend
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall As this publication reported at the time, legendary local businessman and personality Sam Tiberi (Sam’s ...
Letter to the Editor: Spent Nuclear Fuel
ROGER JOHNSON, San Clemente It is unfortunate that reader Bob Carrick wants to politicize the nuclear waste issue and advance ...
CoastLines: Who Has the Best Tales About President Nixon?
Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles San Clemente locals seem to have no end of lively recollections about meeting or seeing ...
CoastLines: Catching Sight of the President in SC
Fred Swegles A recent column drew lots of responses to its tale about a 1970 San Clemente newspaper ad that ...
Letter to the Editor: Response to ‘Debating Nixon Statue’
JEFFREY HERMAN, San Clemente Regarding Garth Taylor's letter, “Debating Nixon Statue” in the San Clemente Times’ July 9 issue, Garth ...
Letter to the Editor: Response to ‘Debating Nixon Statute’
JEFFREY HERMAN, San Clemente Regarding Garth Taylor's letter, “Debating Nixon Statue” in the San Clemente Times’ July 9 issue, Garth ...
Good Vibes and Good Stories at Cottons Point
From Richard Nixon to John Severson, the Trestles surf spot has a lot of history By Jake Howard How good ...
CoastLines: A Sales Pitch of Presidential Proportions
Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles On a Sunday morning in spring 1970, newspaper readers in America’s desert Southwest awoke to ...
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