Aug 31, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
At the beginning of this month, in the lists of celebrity birthdays online and in the newspaper, one would see that on the fifth, “astronaut Neil Armstrong is 82” – just as he had turned 81 the year before that, and so on, going back to 1969 when his...
Aug 30, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
The upcoming presidential election between President Obama and Governor Romney is shaping up to be one of the closest since President Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in 1968. That election came down to a margin of only 511,944 votes nationwide; a number of votes that...
Aug 28, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Ann Romney is scheduled to address the Republican National Convention tonight, and her speech is expected to make big headlines. Interestingly, the tradition of political spouses — or, in some cases, the First Ladies — speaking at party conventions was...
Aug 23, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Republican Party
On this day in 1972, RN triumphantly accepted the presidential nomination coming off a year of successes. The GOP Convention was held in Miami, as it was in 1968, and is the last time that the GOP convention was held in Florida — that is, of course, until next...
Aug 21, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
RN wrote the little known The Meaning of Communism to Americans on August 21, 1960, flatly contending that Americans needed to better understand the socialist and communist philosophies in order to overcome them ideologically. At the time the Cold War was raging and...
Aug 20, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-two years ago today, RN visited Mexico for an official state visit. Arriving in Puerto Vallarta, it was his first state visit to a Latin American country and he noted the occasion in a personal way: Mr. President, as I’m sure you know, it is for Mrs. Nixon...
