Sep 12, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Tonight at 8 pm on the National Geographic Channel, Dr. Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, will appear in a two-hour special – assembled from 25 hours of interviews and including a variety of...
Aug 20, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
I have posted twice this month about articles discussing the massive economic and monetary changes instituted by President Nixon in August 1971 and their continuing relevance for today. Monday marked the fortieth anniversary of the speech in which RN announced the end...
Aug 20, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Virginia is a state that has a lot of historical markers. One can drive through an otherwise lonely crossroads in Hanover County, and spot an ancient, rusting sign describing it as the place where a company in Grant’s army skirmished during the march to...
Aug 10, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
This week two columns at Bloomberg.com discuss different aspects of the economic initiatives President Nixon launched in August 1971, which produced changes in the American economy which still reverberate today. One is by Joseph J. Thorndike, a leading tax historian...
Aug 7, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
The four words above would be familiar to many who were around in the summer and fall of 1972. They were emblazoned on countless buttons distributed by Republican campaign offices around the country to promote the thirty-seventh President’s re-election: in red...
