May 6, 2016 | News, Vice President Nixon
1. On July 24, 1959, Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in a series of heated discussions at an American exhibition in Moscow. As the two continued to debate, they moved through several exhibits including a television studio where part...
May 6, 2016 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
In a piece for TIME Magazine, President and Mrs. Nixon’s granddaughter, Jennie Eisenhower, shares memories of her grandmother Pat Nixon on Mother’s Day. Remembering Pat Nixon, My Grandmother, This Mother’s Day She represented the U.S. with dignity, warmth,...
May 3, 2016 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
1. Richard Nixon won his first congressional election in 1946, where he defeated incumbent New Deal Democrat Jerry Voorhis in California’s 12th district. This would be the first of many political victories for Nixon; he also won political elections in the years 1950,...
Apr 30, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Speeches
On the evening of April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced that the United States was going to attack North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries which were threatening allies from the Vietnamese-Cambodian border:Tonight, American and South Vietnamese units will attack...
Apr 11, 2016 | News, Space
Apollo 13 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida as an audience watches. On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13—manned by Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module pilot John L. Swigert, and Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise– launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape...
Apr 5, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Women's Affairs
As UConn and Syracuse face off tonight in the 2016 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, we look back on President Nixon’s signing of Title IX.As a result of the groundbreaking law, any school that receives federal funds – from elementary to...
