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....
Apr 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Maybe they’re on to something across the pond. It was announced the other day that the next national election in Great Britain will take place on May 6, and the stakes will be high. A 30-day campaign—can you imagine that? Of course, the reality over there, as here at...
Apr 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Paul Chen, a student from the University of Virginia, writes in the student paper, The Cavalier Daily: President Richard Nixon once remarked “If there is anything I want to do before I die, it is to go to China.” Thirty years ago, President Nixon and Secretary of...
Apr 8, 2010 | China, Foreign Policy, News
On February 27, 1972, the United States and China put together the joint U.S-China communiqué, the conclusion of Nixon and Kissinger’s astonishing weeklong visit to the People’s Republic. Kissinger had begun to outline the Shanghai Communiqué with Chou En-lai around...
Apr 7, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Douglas Bandow — a Senior fellow at the Cato Institute — writes in the Nixon Center’s National Interest that “we are no longer sure” that the possibility of a peninsular war is low: The Republic of Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, has attempted to dampen speculation...
