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Documents detail Nixon, Clinton ties

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Curator Bob Bostock, a former Nixon aide who designed the original Watergate exhibit, left, and co-curator Frank Gannon, tour "Patriot. President. Peacemaker," a new special exhibit opening Feb. 15 at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.

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Newly declassified documents show that in the final months of his life, former President Richard Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world.

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A confidential National Security Council memo from a senior President Bill Clinton aide who spent three hours with former President Richard Nixon, shortly before the former president would make his 10th, and final, trip to Russia that year is shown at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif. In the final months of his life, Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world.

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n the final months of his life, Richard Nixon quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world, even offering to serve as a conduit for messages to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and other government officials, newly declassified documents show.