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...
Apr 20, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, News Media
Monday, April 22, marks the 44th annual observance of Earth Day. It was founded in 1970 at the urging of a number of environmental groups and others interested in bringing public attention to the threat to human, animal and plant life posed by pollution and other...
Mar 9, 2013 | China, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Although two months have passed since the centennial of President Nixon’s birth, it is only in the last week that two writers of eminence have written about it. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the Greek shipping heir, essayist, and bon vivant, and Conrad Black (also...
Nov 17, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon TV
November 17, 2012: At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., Nixon administration officials discussed the 37th President’s vision to bring self-determination to who he called the “first Americans.”...
Sep 4, 2012 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
On September 4, 1970, President Nixon — on the advice of his wife — issued a presidential proclamation mandating that the American flag that flies high over the White House is to fly 24 hours a day, seven days a week — regardless of whether or not...
