Dec 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
1 December 2009 and 3 November 1969: the desire to contain a vocal minority and the determination to mobilize a silent majority. I’ve looked at a lot of the coverage of the President’s speech at West Point last night, and, so far at least, no one seems to have noticed...
Dec 2, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, on 2 December 1969, RN signed House and Senate bills dealing with the preservation of presidential homes and birthplaces. 60 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH: 27 was born here on 15 September 1857. 250 Eisenhower Farm Drive, Gettysburg, PA: 34...
Nov 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last month the International Republican Institute honored Henry Kissinger with its 2009 Freedom award in recognition of his contribution to the security and progress of the United States. HAK was introduced by his old friend Senator John McCain, and his former...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s pardon yesterday of a turkey named Courage was the latest exercise of a clemency that may (or may not) have first been extended by President Truman in 1947. Because it’s Thanksgiving and children may be reading —and because the...
Nov 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A Nixon Family portrait from 1969 — their first year in the White House. On Thanksgiving Day 1969 —their first year in the White House— the Nixons invited more than two hundred residents without any families from nineteen DC area old age homes to...
