Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post, Ray Brescia writes of the phrase “Now, More Than Ever,” or NMTE: Interestingly, it was not George W. Bush who introduced the phrase to the political discourse. In fact, it was another Republican President, Richard Nixon, who used...
Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
RN 1970: A photograph by portraitist Merrett Smith. On the night of 6 February 1969 RN was preparing for an interview with TIME and LIFE columnist Hugh Sidey. He wrote three pages of thoughts and resolutions regarding the responsibilities and opportunities of a...
Jan 1, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Dec 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a brief (and highly selective) look back forty years ago — to 1969. Many other important and memorable events occurred — but their photos haven’t yet reached the internet. On 20 January 1969, RN was inaugurated as...
Dec 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In A Life in Full, his biography of RN, Conrad Black surveys the situation at the end of the Nixon Administration’s first year, on New Year’s Eve 1969: Nixon had withdrawn another 50,000 men from Vietnam by year’s end, bringing U.S. force levels down...
Dec 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The creation of the Domestic Council in 1970, roughly patterned after the National Security Council NSC), consolidated policy making on domestic issues into the Executive Office of the President. Coupled with the transformation of the former Bureau of the Budget into...
