May 2, 2012 | News, Republican Party, Watergate
Former Nixon speechwriter Lee Huebner argues yes, during a panel discussion about GOP moderates at the Bipartisan Policy Center: Perhaps necessarily—since there aren’t any moderate Republicans left in Congress—the discussion was grounded in the past. Huebner evoked...
May 1, 2012 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
“MythBusters,” one of the more popular shows on the Discovery Channel, spends lots of time figuratively – and occasionally literally – exploding such myths as “Is it easy to shoot fish in a barrel?,” “Can an old hammer actually explode?,” and “Is water bulletproof?”...
Apr 28, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Considerable attention was given two months ago to the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to China, but this month marked four decades since an event which, though it seems little-remembered now, was also a landmark in its way. During the 1971 tour...
Apr 28, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
In the spring of 1972, long before his three campaigns for the White House, Pat Buchanan was the 33-year-old special assistant in the Nixon White House who had coined the term “silent majority” in the 1968 campaign and now was pondering how his boss could...
Apr 28, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Pre-Presidential Years
In the Washington Post, Washington lawyer and former DoD consultant Elliot Feldman argues for the permanence of the all-volunteer force: The answer does not lie in larger forces that we cannot afford nor in a coercive system that is inherently unfair. The U.S....
Apr 27, 2012 | News, Nixon Library Events
Fox Business host John Stossel discussed his new book, No, They Cant: Why Government Fails – But Individuals Succeed last Monday at the Nixon Library: Jonathan Movroydis is the Director of Communications at the Richard Nixon Foundation.
