Feb 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Feb 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Feb 25, 2010 | News, The New 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...
Feb 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Feb 24, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
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...
Feb 22, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Looking to secure a veneer of bipartisanship for their health care plans, Democrats have reached into the grave, exhuming the alleged endorsement of Richard Nixon. They claim that the health care legislation he proposed in 1971 and 1974 is a model for their own...