Defense Secretary Robert Gates Honored By Nixon Center

Together with retired Air Force General Charles F. Boyd, RN’s daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with the Nixon Center’s annual Distinguished Service Award in Washington on Wednesday, February 24. The program also included remarks...

Dr. Kissinger’s Tribute to General Haig

At Time’s site today, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger writes about Gen. Alexander Haig’s passing: Societies become rich through ingenuity and hard work. But they become great because they produce men and women who lift them beyond the moment. Alexander Haig, who...

Diane Sawyer Speaks About Richard Nixon

As many of TNN’s readers know, Diane Sawyer, the veteran newswoman who now anchors ABC’s World News Tonight, spent the 1970s working in Richard Nixon’s White House, then, after his resignation from the Presidency, in San Clemente as his assistant for...

Nixon, Obama, and Health Insurance Price Controls

Steve Chapman writes of the president’s proposal to control health insurance premiums: Barack Obama has often modeled his policies on Franklin Roosevelt. Lately, though, he’s been coming across more as Richard Nixon Lite. In 1971, fed up with the steady...

Bacevich: How About Some Nixonian Boldness

Scholar and retired soldier, Andrew Bacevich, wants U.S. leaders to be bold and abandon designs for redefining NATO’s mission: When Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s famous assessment of the situation in Afghanistan leaked to the media last year, most observers...