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...
Jun 1, 2013 | Library & Foundation, News, Nixon Library Events, Vietnam
Through this weekend, C-SPAN will periodically be broadcasting President Nixon’s toast to the American POWs of the Vietnam War, at the dinner held on May 24, 1973 to celebrate their return home – to this day, the largest dinner of any kind at the White...
May 11, 2013 | China, News, The Nixons
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the ten-day visit of President Nixon’s grandson Christopher Nixon Cox, heading a party of forty visitors, to the People’s Republic of China. The group, traveling under the auspices of the Richard Nixon Foundation, included...
May 8, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger with Premier Chou En-lai meeting on the Shanghai Communiqué. The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, more commonly referred to as the Shanghai Communiqué, is one of the most...
