Jul 16, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On June 10, President Obama announced the appointment of Betsey Stevenson, economist and associate professor at the University of Michigan, to the Council of Economic Advisors. This is the not the first instance of the Obama Administration’s initiative for the...
Jul 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Supreme Court
On June 25, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act after a 5-4 vote in the case of Shelby County v. Holder. Section 4b provided the formula to determine which states and local governments needed approval from the...
Jul 15, 2013 | China, Inside The Oval Office, News, The New Nixon
July 15th marks the 42nd anniversary of one of the most jaw-dropping moments of Richard Nixon’s presidency: the announcement of his trip to China. The Nixon administration had been secretly preparing for closer relations with the second-most-powerful Communist nation...
Jun 29, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
Late this week, word reached the news media of the death on June 21 of Curtis W. Tarr at his home in Walnut Creek, California. The majority of Mr. Tarr’s career before his retirement was spent in the groves of academia; he was president of Lawrence University in...
Jun 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
This week marks 40 years since the memorable visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the United States. At the invitation of President Nixon, Brezhnev’s trip was his first to the U.S. and their second summit in...
Jun 1, 2013 | News, The Nixons
Jack Ohman, as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in 1980, earned the distinction of being the youngest American cartoonist to have his work nationally syndicated. Upon graduating, he was hired at once by the Columbus Dispatch, and after...
