Sep 5, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
“The dramatic success of our Southern school desegregation problem is eloquently told by the statistics…As far as my administration’s overall record on civil rights is concerned, I believe we can point with justifiable pride to what was accomplished.”-RN, President...
Aug 20, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
A few months after the relatively quiet and peaceful opening of hundreds of newly integrated school districts across the South in the Fall of 1970, a unique letter reached President Nixon’s desk. The two page letter came from Ralph Savarese, a Methodist preacher in...
Aug 12, 2013 | Library & Foundation, News
As the final few days of the school year approached and the prospect of a jobless summer became a fast approaching reality, I worried what exactly the next three months would have in store. Luckily, a posting on Panther Connect, Chapman University’s online job and...
Aug 9, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
It took only two misconstrued words buried in a nine page memo to President Nixon to provide the fuel for the fires of the administration’s harshest critics regarding civil rights and minorities. The memo, sent on January 16, 1970 by Daniel P. Moynihan, Counselor to...
Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
On March 24, 1970, President Nixon released an extensive statement concerning the administration’s stance on ending school segregation in the South. While the number of African American children that were enrolled in desegregated school systems had increased...
