Feb 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On the day he was inaugurated to his second term, President Nixon gave members of the White House staff a desk diary covering the four years of that term. Each day indicated how many days were remaining before his “Four More Years” came to a close. On the cover page...
Feb 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
During the Nixon Administration, Ron Walker headed the White House’s advance team, working on projects ranging in scale from the thirty-seventh President’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China to his visits to Washington-area schools. The...
Feb 11, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As the First Lady wages a campaign against obesity, the Associated Press reminds us that the fight has been underway for more than half a century. President Eisenhower created President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and tapped RN to head it. In...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
This week Public Affairs Press has reissued Who’s Buried In Grant’s Tomb?, a book edited by Brian Lamb and originally published in 2000 as a companion volume to the “American Presidents” series of programs that were, at that time, being first...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Recently Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman appeared at the World Affairs Council in Washington to talk about their new book focusing on the foreign policies of the Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush Administrations, The Forty Years’ War. Above is C-SPAN’s video...
Feb 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
