Aug 23, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Republican Party
On this day in 1972, RN triumphantly accepted the presidential nomination coming off a year of successes. The GOP Convention was held in Miami, as it was in 1968, and is the last time that the GOP convention was held in Florida — that is, of course, until next...
May 28, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/4zR3KTWjGxw] May 2012: At the University of Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum, current policy makers, tribal leaders, and contemporary experts on Native American issues, evaluated the long term impact of the 37th President’s Federal Indian...
May 9, 2012 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
Fox News recently highlighted the work of Border Encuentro, a grassroots bi-national border group which advocates bringing Mexican and American people together at the border in San Diego to meet, play games, and share common interests. As the report notes, that is...
Apr 28, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Pre-Presidential Years
In the Washington Post, Washington lawyer and former DoD consultant Elliot Feldman argues for the permanence of the all-volunteer force: The answer does not lie in larger forces that we cannot afford nor in a coercive system that is inherently unfair. The U.S....
Feb 1, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
February 1, 2012: Secretary of State George Shultz took a look back at his years of service in the Nixon administration, remembering how he and the President led the charge to peacefully desegregate schools in America’s South. As part of a series of Nixon Legacy...
Jan 19, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
Ending The Draft: The Creation of an All-Volunteer Force January 19, 2012 The Foundation and National Archives hosted Nixon campaign and White House officials who worked with President Nixon to end the draft and create the modern, professional, and all-volunteer force...