Dec 22, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News, Space
President Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin sign the Cooperation in Space Agreement on May 24, 1972 With the end of the Apollo space program in sight two years into his first term, President Nixon knew that his Administration had to rethink the future of space...
Dec 11, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News
Congressman Bush, President Nixon, and Ambassador Yost at President’s Announcement Dec. 11, 1970 At noon on December 11, 1970, President Nixon announced at the White House that Congressman George H.W. Bush would receive his nomination to succeed Charles Yost as...
Nov 17, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News
The men of the past thought in terms of blockades and walls; the men of the future will think in terms of open channels. The men of the past were trapped in the gray overcast of cold war; the men of the future, a future toward which we will all work, if only they...
Oct 14, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefs President Nixon on the Middle East Peace talks. On October 21, 1973 Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon’s Secretary of State arrived in Moscow to conduct secret negotiations with the Soviet Union to bring an end to the war in...
Oct 8, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
The U.S. Air Force shipped 22,395 tons of tanks, artillery, ammunition, and supplies to Israel aboard C-141 Starlifters and C-5 Galaxies during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. After the first week of battle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, it was clear to many observers that...
Oct 6, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
Forty-one years ago today, the deadliest Arab-Israeli military conflict commenced with a surprise attack, coordinated mainly by Egypt and Syria, on the Israeli occupied territories in Suez and the Golan Heights. The Yom Kippur War would instantly go down in infamy as...
