Jun 15, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
The energy issue has been around for decades, so it is very hard for a president to say anything new about it. President Obama’s Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill is an example. Toward the end, he invoked images of American determination and ingenuity:...
Jun 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
The words pollution and environment were on many politicians mind in 1969. Improvement of the environment was an achievement during the Nixon administration. Nixon grasped issues rapidly and presented a comprehensive and broad legislative environmental agenda. A...
Jun 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
Environmental conservation was at the forefront of Richard Nixon’s domestic legislative agenda. In his 1971 State of the Union message, RN declared: “I will propose programs to make better use of our land, to encourage a balanced national growth–growth that will...
Jun 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
The establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 was one of the most important actions of Richard Nixon’s presidency, setting up an arm of the Federal government’s executive branch that now employs more than 17,000 people and operates a budget of...
May 27, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
Art Linkletter, who died yesterday at the venerable age of 97, was not the only nonagenarian to pass away this week who played a significant role in the life of President Nixon. On Sunday a man died in Arlington, Virginia, who was, rather incredibly, three months...
May 15, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
President Nixon’s primacy in foreign affairs has long been acknowledged even by his harshest critics. But his domestic record has tended both to be overlooked as a result of the conventional wisdom — particularly in the academy and the media — that he was...
