May 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 65 on this date in 1940. May 10, 1940 was a moment of dynamism militarily and politically as Hitler’s forces swept across Belgium en route to France. One purported bulwark—the famed Maginot...
May 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Alaska Lt. Governor candidate and Chair of the U.S. Arctic Commission Mead Treadwell on Walter Hickel: Gov. Wally Hickel, who invited me in to his world when I was a high school grad visiting Alaska in 1974, and in the 36 years I worked with him, here in Alaska and...
May 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Photo: Courtesy of Foreign Policy Magazine photo feature “Leaders and their moms:” Senator Nixon with mother Hannah Nixon at her home in 1951.
May 8, 2010 | China, Foreign Policy, News
When considering why Richard Nixon was the President who decided to extend the hand of friendship to the People’s Republic of China, after more than twenty years of hostile relations between that country and the United States, it is important to remember that he...
May 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Walter Hickel’s death comes at a time when the nation is focused on the causes and consequences of offshore oil spills. As the newly-minted Secretary of the Interior —literally newly-minted, having only been confirmed six days earlier— Wally Hickel had to deal with...
May 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times has just put up a lengthy obituary of Walter J. Hickel, two-time Alaskan Governor and President Nixon’s first Secretary of the Interior who died last night in Anchorage. With Governor Hickel’s passing, George P. Shultz (Secretary of Labor,...
