John H Taylor

As it happens, I had read "The Acting President" by Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates before I read John H. Taylor's review of it in the Oct. 15 Book Review. Taylor squealed mightily as his icon of a President was exposed as the fraud it was. He takes the authors to task for their prejudices and biases, but in so doing, only exposes his own. ANN BARTUNEK, SANTA FE SPRINGS

John H. Taylor, director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, will discuss the former President's recent trip to Russia at a free lecture Monday. Taylor accompanied Nixon to Moscow in March and will share his insights about the fact-finding mission. He will also discuss Nixon's controversial decision to meet with opposition leaders such as Alexander Rutskoi and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Nixon's meetings angered Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

To commemorate former President Richard Nixon's 83rd birthday, which would have been today, the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace will host a lecture and celebration. The festivities begin at 10:30 a.m. with a tribute to the late president by Dimitri K. Simes, head of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom. At noon, a multiservice military honor guard will lay wreaths on Nixon's grave. Admission to the museum will be free all day. "President Nixon used his birthday to look ahead.

A $100,000 donation to the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace will be used to offer the public free admission on at least six days of special celebration in 2001 and 2002. The money was given by Mary Ann and Bicknell Lockhart of Orange, longtime philanthropists who made a similar gift for complimentary days to the Bowers Museum two years ago. "The Lockharts have been members of the President's Council, our flagship support group, for several years," said John H.

Even though he was at a presidential library Thursday, Jesse "The Body" Ventura said he has absolutely no intentions of running for president. "I have no desire to go to Washington," said the former bad-boy professional wrestler who stunned the nation in November when he was elected governor of Minnesota. "I've been inside the Beltway. I wrestled there. I don't like it." Ventura talked to an overflow crowd of 600 at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Thursday.

Precisely 25 years to the day that he and then-President Richard Nixon began their historic journey to China, Henry Kissinger will commemorate the Feb. 17 event with a visit to the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace. The former secretary of State, the designer of Nixon's so-called "balance of power" approach to foreign policy, will give a speech on American relations with Asia. "I know that President Nixon would be touched and pleased to know that Dr.

The growth in the volume of checks and cash being processed has caused the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to reorganize operations and hire 95 new employees. John H. Taylor has been appointed to the new position of senior vice president and assistant branch manager. The former Texas and North Carolina banker will have direct responsibility for all branch operations and related customer service and administrative areas. The sharpest increase in volume is a result of federal regulations last fall requiring banks to make funds available faster when people deposit checks.