Oct 1, 2013 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
Today’s beginning of the “shutdown” of the U.S. federal government tops an icy chapter in the relationship between our branches of government. President Nixon entered office as the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1848, with both houses of Congress controlled...
Sep 26, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News
It often bewilders me how influential President Nixon’s domestic policies remain to this day. It is truly remarkable that we live in an America that President Nixon envisioned, then helped to shape and create, to a large degree – especially considering that he has...
Sep 21, 2013 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential...
Aug 20, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Louisiana, delivering a fiery and passionate defense of his administration’s foreign policy in – and exit strategy from – the jungles of Vietnam, and the importance of rebuilding America’s foreign...
Jul 25, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
RN and PN with the Shah and Empress of Iran during a state visit to the White House on July 1973. Forty years ago this week, RN welcomed Persian Ally, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Middle Eastern giant whose attempts to modernize Iran and build bridges with the West...
