Jul 12, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon signed the Emergency Employment Act on the 12th of July 1971. The act was aimed at alleviating the layoffs in the aerospace and defense related industries. The Emergency Employment Act would effectively create 150,000 jobs over the following two years...
Jul 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Shortly after President Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam gave a speech proposing a fair political settlement in South Vietnam on July 11, 1969, President Nixon gave a statement in support of the South Vietnam leader’s plan to expedite peace in that “tortured land,” as...
Jul 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In addition to increasing social security benefits by more than 50 percent since his administration took office, President Nixon signed into law H.R. bill #7445, effectively supplementing his previous actions by augmenting benefits by another 5 percent for nearly 30...
Jul 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon spoke on his plan for an administrative and legislative initiative to improve health care in the nation. The quantity and quality of doctors, access to health care, and sufficient numbers of hospital beds were among the government’s greatest concerns....
Jul 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970 transferred various functions relating to the atmosphere and oceans to the Secretary of Commerce and established a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Department of Commerce. This landmark initiative paved the way...
Jul 8, 2010 | Foreign Policy, News
When historians discuss U.S.-Soviet relations, they tend to place a special emphasis on the personal relationships formed between the leaders of the two superpowers. The common examples include FDR and Stalin, Reagan and Gorbachev – but what was the relationship like...
