Richard Nixon’s New Year’s Resolutions

As the hours count down and we get ready to face 2011, the inevitable question arises of what our New Year’s resolutions should be – or if we should make any.  I have found, over a few decades, that just saying resolutions aloud never gets them to stick in...

Who Saved Soviet Jewry?

The December 9th release of additional Nixon White House presidential documents and tapes produced the usual response.  As has become customary, brief excerpts of the tapes – excerpts that invariably show President Nixon and members of his administration in the most...

Peter Peterson to Receive Top Finance Award

American financier Pete Peterson will receive the John C. Whitehead Award from the American Museum of Finance for his achievement and leadership in the field of finance, as well as his distinct service in the public sector, including formidable terms as President...

How RN Helped the Soviet Jews

In today’s edition of the National Review, Conrad Black articulately points out how RN successfully secured the emigration of Soviet Jews, giving substantive context to an exchange Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had with the President in 1973: This was a...

Ben Stein on RN’s Support for Israel

On July 17, 2010, Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein – who keynoted the Library’s 20th anniversary gala – destroyed charges of antisemitism calling RN the “savior of Israel” during the Yom Kippur War. “He’s the best friend the...