Jul 6, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to Midwestern news executives. In The New York Times, Tom Switzer quotes that speech to suggest that RN embraced American decline: Not only had the Soviets matched U.S. military might, the old cold warrior conceded, but Japan and...
Jan 27, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
“We will move forward together, or not at all,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address. Readers of this blog may have noticed that this line echoed one from RN’s 1969 inaugural: “To go forward at all is to go forward...
Jan 16, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Inside The Oval Office, News
Anyone having the opportunity to interact with someone who is, say, more than eighty years old—and therefore remembers the Great Depression—knows that people back in those days thought differently about money and material things than most of us do today. Fifty years...
Nov 6, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
The GOP resurgence calls to mind the 1966 midterm, another successful year for the party. RN was a big part of that success, as Warren Weaver wrote in The New York Times on November 13 of that year: The political equivalent of the batting championship for the 1966...
Sep 20, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
This afternoon, our President, in a rather self-conscious move evoking unfortunate memories of Jimmy Carter’s 1979 effort at what we would now call “reset,” that resulted in the infamous “malaise” speech, appeared at a “town...
Sep 6, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
In the 1960 campaign, the magazine Musical America sent the presidential candidates a brief questionnaire about arts policy. Fifty years ago today, RN replied: Our great lack today is not sources of subsidy or an honest desire to promote the arts, but a program for...
