Aug 8, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
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....
Aug 7, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Aug 5, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Aug 5, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Aug 5, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News
In another few days, thirty-seven years will have passed since the resignation of the thirty-seventh President. The recent passing of Betty Ford has reminded Rachel Patron, a writer for the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Sun-Sentinel, of the example of courage and...
Aug 5, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Between 1961 and 1973, the late journalist Theodore H. White published four books about the Presidential elections from 1960 to 1972. The first of these, The Making Of The President 1960, about the contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, won the Pulitzer...
