Apr 2, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Today the Selective Service system is on stand-by. Every male in America between the ages of 18 and 25 must register with the Selective Service System, but never has any individual since the Vietnam War era been conscripted into service. The first and last experience...
Apr 2, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Supreme Court
The two terms of President Nixon’s administration faced a myriad of issues related to Civil Rights. One among these, which consistently provoked RN’s reaction, was that of busing, a system the Supreme Court mandated throughout the country in order to end racial...
Feb 26, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News
In an effort to curb the amount of culturally and historically significant artifacts being illegally trafficked between the United States and Mexico, officials from each country met in 1967 and agreed to develop methods to prevent the unauthorized transfer of...
Feb 20, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon meeting with future Nobel Laureate Dr. Milton Friedman, distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and the leading voice of the President’s Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force. On February 21st, 1970, the Gates...
Feb 9, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
The Gates Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, made possible by the works and recommendations of Martin Anderson and Milton Friedman. In April of 1967, Martin Anderson, who served as the research director for the Nixon Campaign of 1968, would go on to write a...
Jan 8, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/8gpNbbqLwZU] January 8, 2015: Stephen Hess, author of “The Professor and The President,” gives his thoughts on how Richard Nixon will be remembered in history.
