Apr 17, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On April 2, Lady Sonia McMahon, widow of Sir William McMahon who was Australia’s prime minister during most of President Nixon’s first term, died at the age of 77. Her passing received little notice in this country but the obituaries in Australia, and the United...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
Although Richard Nixon’s pre-presidential speeches and writings sometimes had passages referring to his love of the varied landscape of his native state of California, it still came as a surprise to many when, in his State of the Union address on January 22,...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
One aspect of Richard Nixon’s presidency that still has far-reaching consequences today is his effort to deal with the issues created by America’s consumption of steadily decreasing energy sources. At the start of the Administration, in 1969, this did not...
Apr 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The FBI file of Pulitzer-winning columnist and Nixon White House speechwriter, the late William Safire, has become public. The Associated Press’s Jessica Gresko describes the contents: Some of the earliest material dates from 1969, when investigators did a background...
Apr 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
A few weeks after the 37th President boarded Air Force One for his last trip as President, David Bowie stood in a studio in Philadelphia and asked the country’s young Americans, “do you remember your President Nixon?” Not long after that, Neil Young,...
