May 26, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News
From left to right: Howard K. Smith of ABC, Eric Sevareid of CBS, John Chancellor of NBC, and President Richard Nixon. It was television day, as H.R. Haldeman, President Nixon’s chief of staff wrote in his diaries. A day when President Nixon would lock himself...
May 20, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Wilderness Years
In late October of 1966, LBJ met with leaders of several different Pacific nations to begin negotiating new policy goals for the Vietnam War. The result of this summit was The Manila Communiqué: a document that laid out specific policy goals to try to achieve peace in...
May 12, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/L0NxteMHSlM] May 12, 2015: Before a large and engaged audience in the Librarys East Room, Siegel participated in a discussion with syndicated radio talk show commentator and columnist Larry Elder, touching upon shared U.S. and Israeli...
Apr 29, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Japan, News
Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato meets with President Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente on January 6, 1972. In 1971, Washington and Tokyo maintained a strong economic and security relationship, but as with any alliance, the relationship was tested by...
Apr 9, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
At the onset of 1969, the Nixon administration had yet to form a definitive plan to bring peace to Vietnam, largely as a result of the North Vietnamese’s continued intransigence and a time period occupied by necessary fact gathering and policy option studies....
Feb 5, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
John Negroponte, pictured on the far right, prepares briefing material for Henry Kissinger en route to Paris for the peace signings. The year 1970 saw President Nixon make some profound decisions regarding United States operations in Vietnam in addition to some real...
