Sep 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
From NBC’s Anchorage, Alaska affiliate, KTTU: Thirty-nine years ago Sunday, a significant state visit by Emperor Hirohito of Japan changed the relationship between the U.S. and Japan — and President Richard Nixon was in Anchorage to meet him. Watch the...
Sep 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
With unrest at home, an economic slump and two wars in the Middle East, our 21st century America faces several challenges. Among the most prominent is the ever-present threat of terrorism. On September 27, 1972, President Richard Nixon issued a statement in regard to...
Sep 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As today’s fiftieth anniversary of the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon concludes, it’s worth thinking about the long, long process that led to it. The series of debates across between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln became part...
Sep 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In a special edition of Meet the Press co-sponsored with the University of Virginia, UVA’s Larry Sabato, former RN aide Patrick Buchanan, former JFK aide Ted Sorensen and journalist Sander Van Oker remember the first RN-JFK debate: Visit msnbc.com for breaking...
Sep 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On a late September Monday evening fifty years ago today, 80 million Americans (a number approaching half the population of the United States at the time) sat before their flickering black and white television sets to watch the first televised presidential debate in...
Sep 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On September 26, 1960 cathode rays changed presidential politics forever. For on that Monday evening Richard Nixon and Jack Kennedy faced off on the first televised presidential debate in American campaign history. Neither Nixon nor Kennedy was a stranger to debates....
