Apr 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
W. Joseph Campbell is a professor at American University School of Communications. Before he entered academia he spent 20 years as a journalist, often traveling and working abroad (in the days when major American newspapers and magazines could afford to send a fair...
Apr 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Cindy, Arora, the OC Register: YORBA LINDA – Cold War historian Timothy Naftali was officially appointed as the first federal director to lead the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace into its new role as a national presidential library. U.S. Archivist Allen...
Apr 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Early this morning, the world was shaken with the news that Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria were killed when their plane crashed while attempting to land amid thick fog in Western Russia. Ninety-seven people were killed in the crash, including...
Apr 10, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
President Nixon organized his White House into three functional areas: The Office of the President, the National Security Council and the Domestic Council. Each President makes his own decisions on how he wants his White House to operate. There have been seven...
Apr 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday, the death of Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, the Soviet Union’s ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986, was announced in Moscow. He was 90. Few diplomats served as long in Washington as Dobrynin. (One who served longer was Ernest Jaakson, who was...
Apr 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Less than an hour ago word came from Washington that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who was selected by President Ford as William O. Douglas’s replacement in 1975, has announced that he will retire when the Court’s spring term concludes at the end of June....