Jul 31, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
On December 23, 1971 President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 into legislation, consequently launching the national War on Cancer. President Nixon supported cancer research throughout his presidency into his years as elder statesman. Addressing...
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 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
This past Tuesday marks the forty-first anniversary of the Education Amendments of 1972. On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed the amendments which included the non-busing policy and Title IX. Title IX had a broad but inconspicuous potential to its legislators, as...
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...
Jul 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Modern US-China relations have expanded beyond what any of President Nixon’s contemporaries could have imagined. On March 7, 1972, just a week after President Nixon’s famous trip to China, US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger told reporters: “On trade, any of...
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....
