Jul 25, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, Russia, Soviet Union, The New Nixon, Vietnam
Throughout history, U.S. global primacy has been in danger when it has overextended itself politically, economically, and militarily, exhausting the American spirit, and eroding its influence abroad. The solution to the international issues that have plagued the U.S....
Jul 25, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
RN and PN with the Shah and Empress of Iran during a state visit to the White House on July 1973. Forty years ago this week, RN welcomed Persian Ally, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Middle Eastern giant whose attempts to modernize Iran and build bridges with the West...
Jul 24, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, Kitchen Debate, News, Russia, Soviet Union
In 2009, William Safire—former speech writer for President Nixon—recalled in his New York Times piece “The Cold War’s Hot Kitchen,” the gaggle of reporters and general pandemonium surrounding the 1959 debate between then Vice President Nixon, and Soviet Premier...
Jul 24, 2013 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon with conscripted troops in S. Vietnam, 1969. This month marks 40 years since the formal transition from mandatory, conscripted military service to all-volunteer armed services, which was initiated under President Nixon. The road there was bumpy and...
Jun 7, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, Library & Foundation, News Media, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Republican Party, The New Nixon, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
RN and PN with Walter and Leonore Annenberg at La Casa Pacifica in 1969. No it would not, on two counts; first, that it was RN’s diplomatic appointment of Annenberg that began his foreign service and second that it was RN who, of course, opened the U.S. and western...
Mar 9, 2013 | China, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Although two months have passed since the centennial of President Nixon’s birth, it is only in the last week that two writers of eminence have written about it. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the Greek shipping heir, essayist, and bon vivant, and Conrad Black (also...
