Kissinger Keynotes Washington Conference

President Nixon’s National Security Adviser and Secretary of State addressed a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington Wednesday, May 19. His conversation with the Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland was apart of a two day conference on America’s...

“Stay Free”

Alaska Lt. Governor candidate and Chair of the U.S. Arctic Commission Mead Treadwell on Walter Hickel: Gov. Wally Hickel, who invited me in to his world when I was a high school grad visiting Alaska in 1974, and in the 36 years I worked with him, here in Alaska and...

Happy Mother’s Day

Photo: Courtesy of Foreign Policy Magazine photo feature “Leaders and their moms:” Senator Nixon with mother Hannah Nixon at her home in 1951.

RN’s Conservationist

Former Alaska Governor and RN Interior Secretary Walter Hickel died today. He was 90. Hickel was a trail blazer for President Nixon’s environmental agenda early on, leading the cleanup after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil rig explosion and conservation efforts for the...