In Khrushchev’s Kitchen

As apart of the opening tour of the Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit, Patriot. President. Peacemaker Friday, youngsters from the local Boys and Girls Club learned about Vice President Nixon’s trip to Moscow in 1959, and his face-off with Soviet Premier Nikita...
Nixon 100 Centennial Exhibit Launch

Nixon 100 Centennial Exhibit Launch

[youtube https://youtu.be/5wpdz9Eg4TY] February 15, 2013: The Nixon Centennial Exhibit, “Patriot. President. Peacemaker.,” officially opened at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library before former White House officials, and friends and admirers of...

2.5.1969 — Realpolitik at its Finest

One of the most widely cited documents by the United Nations is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which nearly every nation of the world is a signatory. The goal: stop the production and rapid spread of fissile nuclear material to develop dangerous bombs and,...

1.23.1973 — RN Announces Peace Agreement

Forty years ago today, RN went on national television to announce that a peace agreement had been reached, thus ending American involvement in the Vietnam War and delivering on his promise to bring peace with honor. According to Bruce Herschensohn in his keynote...

Nixon on Paar

TIME Magazine will post online every day for the next year an interesting piece of Nixon trivia to mark RN’s centennial. A first-class musician — he once said that if he had not gone into politics he would have become a musician — here’s RN...