Aug 31, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Supreme Court, Vietnam
During the past week there were countless articles, video clips, and broadcasts marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom – the event on the Mall involving up to 300,000 people gathered to promote civil and economic rights,...
Aug 29, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
In 1992, the city council of La Habra went into two and a half hours of deliberations, debating the demolition or preservation of Richard M. Nixon’s first law office. The City Council concluded that the site, which included RN’s law office and the Wester Hotel, did...
Aug 26, 2013 | News, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/wQPmWCV-UyY] The Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 gave legislative authority to the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP). The pioneering group that worked at SAODAP during the Nixon and Ford Administrations,...
Aug 26, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey Among President Nixon’s many underrated accomplishments, perhaps his greatest is his substantial legacy in civil rights. While the movement’s defining laws, The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965), were signed by President Lyndon...
Aug 24, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
Newly released documents detail how President Nixon made equality for women a top priority in his administration. The materials, among the 1,400 pages of other textual material from the National Archives, shed light on his vision and drive to bring women into...
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...
