Aug 19, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
With Ben Bernanke leaving the Federal Reserve this fall, one is left to wonder who will be appointed next chairman: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers or the current Vice Chairman, Janet Yellen. While Yellen receives much of the criticism concerning...
Aug 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Over the many books he authored, President Nixon would occasionally refer to the philosophies of literary giants such as Fyodor Dostoevsky or Friedrich Nietzsche. Exposed to these great authors in college, President Nixon understood the value the humanities had in his...
Aug 14, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
On February 6, 1969, the East Room was packed with male reporters and just a few female reporters. The press briefing consisted of questions surrounding US-European relations and what President Nixon hoped to achieve in his upcoming trip to Brussels, Paris and...
Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Vice President Nixon
In 1921, Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for constitutional gender equality. The original version read: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction....
Aug 2, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
As the Cold War continued, President Nixon became the first American President to visit socialist Romania. On August 2, 1969, he delivered an arrival speech in Bucharest on US-Romanian relations, and their shared goals of peace and security. In President Nixon’s...
