Oct 21, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
This week Nixonfoundation.org spoke with Jeffrey Donfeld, a former member of the Nixon White House staff who was on the ground in Israel when the Yom Kippur War broke out 40 years ago in October 1973. Mr. Donfeld joined the White House as Staff Assistant to the...
Oct 19, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
The resolution this week of the budget crisis – at least for the rest of the year – has resulted in many Americans thinking once again about the problems of the Middle East. Violence continues unabated in Syria, and just yesterday, in protest of what it...
Oct 19, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Pop Culture, The New Nixon
Recently, Oscar winner and House of Cards star Kevin Spacey shared some surprisingly favorable words for Richard Nixon, shedding some light on the efforts of the President to extend federal support for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Spacey, a strong...
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...
Oct 12, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Earlier this week Monica Crowley, the longtime contributor to Fox News who began her career as President Nixon’s foreign-policy assistant from 1990 to his passing in 1994, appeared on Don Imus’s radio show. As usual, the broadcasting legend made some...
Oct 8, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
To plant the seeds of bureaucratic reform, President Nixon sought after advisors who were characterized by intellectual pugnacity and a challenger’s spirit. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the eventual head of the President’s Urban Affairs Counsel, was just the right man to...
