Aug 12, 2013 | Domestic Policy, Inside The Oval Office, News, Nixon Today
By Marshall Garvey When one looks at how the American presidency functions today, it seems like an overwhelming task. Aside from having to be ready to handle crises and address a complex array of entrenched issues, the president also has to steer an enormous...
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 6, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
By Marshall Garvey As President Obama and congressional Republicans debate how to handle entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, many Americans worry they’ll ultimately be unable to come to a bipartisan consensus. In 1969, during his first year...
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...
Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Vice President Nixon
In 1921, Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for constitutional gender equality. The original version read: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction....
Aug 2, 2013 | Communism, Domestic Policy, News, Soviet Union, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey Bradley Manning, in one of the most recent high-profile court cases in America, has been convicted on 20 charges of mishandling data for providing hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to Wikileaks. Violating the Espionage Act of...
