Apr 23, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
The U.S. Ping-Pong team became the first group of Americans to visit mainland China since the Communist takeover in 1949. “You have opened a new chapter in the relations between the American and Chinese people,” said Premier Chou En-Lai. “I am confident,” he...
Apr 22, 2013 | China, News
This piece is part of a companion series commemorating President Nixon’s Centennial and his historic 1972 journey to China. From May 1 through May 10, the Nixon Foundation is taking a delegation – led by RN’s grandson Christopher Nixon Cox – to...
Apr 20, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, News Media
Monday, April 22, marks the 44th annual observance of Earth Day. It was founded in 1970 at the urging of a number of environmental groups and others interested in bringing public attention to the threat to human, animal and plant life posed by pollution and other...
Apr 8, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Lady Thatcher, one of the giants of the 20th century, passed on yesterday at 87. In his most revealing memoir, In the Arena, RN wrote fondly about the Iron Lady: There is no one I would rather have on my side in a fight than Margaret Thatcher. She deserves the major...
Apr 6, 2013 | News, The Nixons, Watergate
Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) is a name little known now except to students of Hungarian literature. But in a short story he wrote in 1929, he introduced a concept that he derived from studying the mathematics of probability, and which, for over a quarter-century, has...
Mar 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s trip to Israel — his first as POTUS — has appropriately generated much interest and intrigue, given the delicate state of affairs in the Middle East. It is appropriate on such an occasion, as many media outlets have done, to recall...
