Jan 3, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
With the coming of a New Year we are again reminded that on January 1, 1959, now 51 years ago, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rolled into Havana and established a Communist government in the Western Hemisphere. Castro is now enjoying his senior status as a thorn...
Nov 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The upcoming special election in the New York Twenty-third Congressional brings to mind an earlier three way election in the Empire State. The 2009 special election features Democrat Bill Owens, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Identifying...
Aug 29, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Throughout our history the vice-presidency has been an evolving institution. For many years the vice-president served merely as the presiding officer of the Senate with little or no involvement with the Administration. Calvin Coolidge (1921-23) was the first...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Richard Nixon prided himself on his mastery of foreign affairs, both as President and as a senior statesman. An accomplishment of which he was most proud was his opening to China, both because it allowed the U.S. to use the “China card” to balance out a rising Soviet...
May 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The continuing flap over the statements by Jeremiah Wright and his association with Sen. Obama bring to mind situations in the past in which prominent politicians came under attack because of their associations with controversial individuals. FDR had to cover up...
