Nov 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Man’s God leans toward order, God’s Man leans toward chaos, and the tension in that eternal tug-of-war generates the energy of freedom” —William Safire From The First Dissident: The Book of Job In Today’s Politics —–...
Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Public response to the 3 November speech was phenomenal. The President, seen above with Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, displayed some of the letters and telegrams on his desk in the Oval Office. In his diary entry for 4 November, Haldeman wrote: Reaction day, and a...
Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
“Very few speeches actually influence the course of history. The November 3 speech was one of them.” —RN in RN Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon wrote and delivered a speech that both changed the course of American foreign policy and altered the...
Nov 3, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In his introduction to the November 3 speech in his book Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, the late Bill Safire wrote: “There is nothing the president has reflected on with greater anguish,” Henry Kissinger told the Nixon senior staff in the...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
