Why I Registered to Vote

Saturday, I registered to vote. Having turned 18 in May, and anxious to let myself be heard – officially, of course – in an election for the first time, I had been excited to register but just did not know how. Luckily, I ran into some activists in front of a local...

Video: RN’s New American Revolution

On August 8 – the 42nd anniversary of President Nixon’s prime time address announcing his domestic policy – the National Archives and the Richard Nixon Foundation hosted New Federalism: Returning Power to the People, the 13th in a series of Nixon Legacy Forums....

Now More Than Ever

The four words above would be familiar to many who were around in the summer and fall of 1972. They were emblazoned on countless buttons distributed by Republican campaign offices around the country to promote the thirty-seventh President’s re-election: in red...

The Road To “Sock It…To Me?”

Paul Keyes, who died in 2004 at the age of 79, was a comedy writer best known for heading the staffs that scripted the Tonight Show during Jack Paar’s years hosting it, and that quintessential product of the late 1960s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.  He...

Forty Years After The “Nixon Shock”

When the month of August is thought of in connection with Richard Nixon’s Presidency, usually his resignation is the first thing that comes to mind.  But August 15 will mark another anniversary – forty years since RN took to the airwaves to inform the...