Oct 26, 2017 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Nixon's Comeback, Vietnam, Wilderness Years
By Niall Ferguson On December 10, 1967, Clare Boothe Luce decided to bring together Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon at a pre-Christmas cocktail party in her elegant apartment at 933 Fifth Avenue. It was the first meeting between the two men who, more...
Oct 25, 2017 | China, Exhibits, Foreign Policy, Nixon Today, Vietnam, Wilderness Years
Online Exhibit Marks 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon’s Seminal 1967 Article “Asia After Viet Nam” at 50 is one of a series of online exhibits specifically designed by the Richard Nixon Foundation for digital viewing on desktops and mobile devices. In “Asia...
Oct 24, 2017 | Foreign Policy, Nixon TV
Luke Nichter discussed President Nixon’s vision for NATO and Transatlantic Relations on October 23, 2017. (Richard Nixon Foundation). Luke Nichter is the author of “Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World.” Historian...
Sep 15, 2017 | Artifacts, China, Foreign Policy, Nixon Today
An American tennis table player trains with a Chinese tennis table player, in April, 1971 in Beijing, China. (AFP/Getty Images) By Charlie Cauffman On April 5, 1971, the People’s Republic of China invited the United States table-tennis team to play their national team...
Sep 8, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy
President Nixon with Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, June 1974. Nixon Presidential Library. By Jason Schwartz A hotbed of Cold War tension, the Middle East endured as a centrum of contrasting pressures throughout the Nixon presidency. Following the Six-Day War...
Sep 8, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy
Meeting in the Oval Office between Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi. 31 October 1973. Richard Nixon Presidential Library. By Matthew-Ryan Brazas Recently, President Trump has offered to serve as a mediator between Arab states in the...