Oct 17, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
The Obama administration recently announced that it will be freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Egyptian military on the condition that the Arab nation display credible progress toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department...
Sep 13, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
On September 11, Vladimir Putin exercised a freedom protected by the United States that is not widely available in his country, freedom of the press. In what spread across the internet like wild fire, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed piece, published by the...
Sep 3, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Russia, The New Nixon
President Obama secured support for military action in Syria from the top House Republicans, Speaker Boehner, and Majority Leader Cantor, but to what end? The President has previously stated that he isn’t interested in regime change, so ousting Assad by the US...
Aug 24, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Russia
Newly released White House materials from the National Archives reveal a private conversation between President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in a one-on-one meeting at the White House on June 18, 1973. The meeting was the only recorded...
Aug 20, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Louisiana, delivering a fiery and passionate defense of his administration’s foreign policy in – and exit strategy from – the jungles of Vietnam, and the importance of rebuilding America’s foreign...
Aug 14, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
On Friday, February 25, 1972, during the historic visit to China, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted a Reciprocal Banquet for the Chinese in the Great Hall of the People, the first major event ever hosted by the American government on Chinese soil. The Americans had...