Aug 9, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, Russia, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey Twenty two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, relations between the Obama Administration and Russia have regressed. Aside from hot-button issues like asylum for NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Russia’s...
Aug 8, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
From left to right: Premier Zhou En-Lai, translator Tang Wensheng, Chairman Mao, President Nixon, and Henry Kissinger. (Not shown: National Security Advisor Winston Lord and Chinese Deputy Chief of Protocol Wang Hai-Jung.) One of the most incredible moments in the...
Aug 2, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
As the Cold War continued, President Nixon became the first American President to visit socialist Romania. On August 2, 1969, he delivered an arrival speech in Bucharest on US-Romanian relations, and their shared goals of peace and security. In President Nixon’s...
Aug 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
One of the most enjoyable duties of the President is accepting gifts from foreign heads of state on behalf of the United States of America. The First Family does not personally retain most of these gifts; in fact, the Constitution (Article I, Section 9) forbids US...
Jul 30, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Departing from Hawaii en route to China on February 20th, 1972, President Nixon quoted President Theodore Roosevelt: “Our history will be more determined by our position on the Pacific facing China than by our position on the Atlantic facing Europe.” When President...
Jul 29, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today
If President Nixon’s July 15th, 1971 announcement of his trip to China was a surprise to the USA, it was a shock to Japan. As Minoru Kusuda, then Chief Secretary to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, said in 1996: “[T]here was a joke circulating among Japanese diplomats that...
