Sep 30, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Today, at the State Department in Washington, a two-day conference about the lessons of the Vietnam War concluded. The conference was opened with remarks by Secretary of State Clinton, and featured panel discussions about the war that included a number of eminent...
Sep 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
A big topic of dinner-table conversation on the evening of September 27, 1960, was the first Kennedy-Nixon debate that had taken place the day before. Many Americans wondered how the two candidates would do when next they met. But the following evening, the attention...
Sep 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As today’s fiftieth anniversary of the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon concludes, it’s worth thinking about the long, long process that led to it. The series of debates across between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln became part...
Sep 20, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
This afternoon, our President, in a rather self-conscious move evoking unfortunate memories of Jimmy Carter’s 1979 effort at what we would now call “reset,” that resulted in the infamous “malaise” speech, appeared at a “town...
Sep 16, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The petition filed by historian Stanley Kutler and several historical and archival organizations with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, asking that President Nixon’s 1975 grand jury testimony about Watergate be unsealed, has been the subject of...
