Jun 7, 2022 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today
By Christopher T. Cross Pell Grants, the need-based government financial aid program currently supporting about 6.2 million college students could more fittingly be called Nixon Grants. As a Nixon appointee at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, I worked...
Apr 21, 2022 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Presidency
During his first State of the Union address, delivered in 1970, President Nixon designated the environment as the defining issue of the new decade. “The great question of the Seventies is…shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage...
Aug 5, 2019 | Domestic Policy, News
Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs: Family Assistance Plan August 08, 1969 Note: The President delivered the address on nationwide radio and television at 10 p.m. Good evening my fellow Americans: As you know, I returned last Sunday night from a trip around...
