Jun 1, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Last Friday marked a century since the birth in South Dakota of a son to a small-town druggist named Hubert Horatio Humphrey. That boy, who received the same sonorous appelation, grew up to be mayor of Minneapolis (he moved to the Land of a Thousand Lakes for college...
May 29, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At the Christian Science Monitor, Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term “news conference” as an alternative to “press conference.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed’s first-ever official press conference...
May 28, 2011 | China, Foreign Policy, News
This month, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, published his first new book in eight years, On China. (Its publisher, Simon & Schuster, has simultaneously reissued Dr....
May 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Former Congressman James Rogan visited the Nixon Library Thursday to discuss his new book Catching our Flag: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment. A prosecutor and judge by trade, Rogan ascended to the elite House Judiciary Committee as a freshman...
May 20, 2011 | Foreign Policy, News
Today marks a significant milestone in a contest between the executive and legislative branches of this nation’s government that began nearly four decades ago, for it looks as if President Obama will not be asking Congress to permission to continue...
May 13, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On May 13, 1958, while on a trip to Latin America, Vice President Richard M. Nixon found his limousine under attack by an angry mob in Caracas, Venezuela. The incident was so provocative that President Eisenhower ordered elements of the 101st Airborne Division to...
