Jul 22, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News
“No qualified student who wants to go to college should be barred by lack of money. That has long been a great American goal; I propose that we achieve it now.”- President Nixon March 19, 1970 In a move President Nixon would have gladly approved of, members of the...
Jul 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Former adviser to President Nixon, Leonard Garment, passed away earlier this week at the age of 89. After assisting with Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, Garment joined the White House Staff in 1969, serving as special consultant to the President on Domestic...
Jul 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Today’s public loves their lists, whether it is Forbes’s World’s Billionaires, Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, or People’s Most Beautiful. With much of the same fervor, the women of the Nixon administration also became the subject of media attention....
Jul 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/pdf6ZN9X-ds] July 2013: President Nixon raised the bar on energy policy and led the country towards greater independence from foreign sources, said Jay Hakes, the Director of the Carter Presidential Library in a talk at the Nixon...
Jul 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Supreme Court
On June 25, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act after a 5-4 vote in the case of Shelby County v. Holder. Section 4b provided the formula to determine which states and local governments needed approval from the...
Jun 29, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Late this week, word reached the news media of the death on June 21 of Curtis W. Tarr at his home in Walnut Creek, California. The majority of Mr. Tarr’s career before his retirement was spent in the groves of academia; he was president of Lawrence University in...
