Jul 19, 2013 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
Garment recruited the author to President Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign (Getty). It is said that when the novelist John O’Hara learned of the death of his friend, composer George Gershwin, he wrote: “They tell me George is dead, but I don’t...
Jul 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Former adviser to President Nixon, Leonard Garment, passed away earlier this week at the age of 89. After assisting with Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, Garment joined the White House Staff in 1969, serving as special consultant to the President on Domestic...
Jul 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Today’s public loves their lists, whether it is Forbes’s World’s Billionaires, Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, or People’s Most Beautiful. With much of the same fervor, the women of the Nixon administration also became the subject of media attention....
Jul 17, 2013 | Middle East, News, The New Nixon
Major news sources throughout the country have reported the US Congress has delayed the shipment of military aid to the Syrian rebels. The Muslim Brotherhood, who represented the largest faction of rebel fighters, has stated that they felt, “abandoned and...
Jul 17, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
During the car ride from the Beijing Airport on February 21, 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai turned to President Nixon and said, “Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world—twenty five years of no communication.” Nixon’s week-long trip to China built a bridge...
Jul 16, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
In an open letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee sent on July 10, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urged Congress to rethink the impending $52 billion cut from the defense budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The planned cuts are a result of the Budget Control Act...
