Sep 21, 2018 | China, News
Wally Johnson managed the confirmation processes of Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court Jonathan Movroydis: Welcome to the Nixon Now podcast. I’m Jonathan Movroydis. This is brought to you by the Nixon Foundation. We’re...
Sep 21, 2018 | News, Pre-Presidential Years
Richard Vinen is author of “1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies” Transcript Jonathan Movroydis: Welcome to the “Nixon Now Podcast.” I’m Jonathan Movroydis. This is brought to you by the Nixon Foundation, we’re broadcasting from...
Sep 15, 2018 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, Post-Presidential Years
The 37th President reflects on how the West can help influence new democracies in the East. President Nixon was a reflective thinker, and would daily outline political and foreign policy strategy on his ubiquitous yellow pads, or in memos to his staff and in...
Sep 10, 2018 | News, Post-Presidential Years, Russia, Soviet Union
President Nixon across Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in March 1991. (Richard Nixon Foundation) In an earlier article, we discussed former President Nixon’s advice to President George H.W. Bush about how to conduct war and diplomacy in the run up to the Gulf War....
Sep 4, 2018 | Foreign Policy, News, Post-Presidential Years
President Richard Nixon with George H.W. Bush upon being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. 12 January 1970 (George H.W. Presidential Library). On Christmas Day 1990, three weeks before United States’ forces launched Operation Desert Storm to expel...
Sep 4, 2018 | Domestic Policy, News
Reid Peyton Chambers was associate solicitor general for Indian affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations Transcript Jonathan Movroydis: Welcome to the Nixon Now Podcast, I’m Jonathan Movroydis. In July 1970, President Nixon delivered his message, his...