Apr 27, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
In 1971, RN launched the War on Cancer, bringing a series of Federal initiatives to bear against the deadly disease and – in the process – revolutionizing the field of biomedical research. Today there are 61 designated cancer centers and 300 different antidotes...
Apr 25, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
It is interesting to take note of some of the most well-known quotes that defined RN, over the course of his life and now in the annals history. This is also meant to coincide with the recently-held Nixon Legacy Forum “Writing for 37,” which featured several of...
Apr 22, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Last October at TNN, Jonathan Movroydis posted a link to a program on Irish radio commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to that green isle from whose soil his ancestors sailed to America. Yesterday at the site irishcentral.com, John Fay,...
Apr 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
From the earliest days as President, RN was determined to bring women into high level positions in his administration. On Tuesday we noted the forty-second anniversary of his appointment of Virginia Knauer as Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. ...
Apr 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
As most couch potatoes know, a thousand years from now, Richard Nixon (or at least his head preserved in a transparent jar) will be completing his third term as President of Earth, as depicted in Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated series Futurama....
Apr 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-two years ago today —on 21 April 1969— President Nixon announced his choice of a thirty-six year old Chicago congressman —Donald H. Rumsfeld— to head the troubled and troubling Office of Economic Opportunity. RN turned out to be both a...
