May 29, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
It was the case that first introduced Richard Nixon, then a first-term congressman from California, to the national political stage sixty-four years ago. It made all of his subsequent political success possible. It also planted seeds of animosity toward him on the...
May 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On May 13, 1958, while on a trip to Latin America, Vice President Richard M. Nixon found his limousine under attack by an angry mob in Caracas, Venezuela. The incident was so provocative that President Eisenhower ordered elements of the 101st Airborne Division to...
May 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Written for the The Daily Caller. Do Republicans need to grow up — again? Shortly after Richard Nixon’s “last press conference” on the night of his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial race — when he uttered the infamous phrase, “you won’t have Nixon to kick...
Jan 16, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Inside The Oval Office, News
Anyone having the opportunity to interact with someone who is, say, more than eighty years old—and therefore remembers the Great Depression—knows that people back in those days thought differently about money and material things than most of us do today. Fifty years...
Nov 19, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The snow had fallen in massive quantities the night before and the temperature had plummeted to single digits. And the man who had provided steady and unruffled guidance to the United States of America during a potentially turbulent time, likely found himself watching...