Jun 19, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Japan, News
This political cartoon from August 1971 suggests a foreboding future for relations with Japan. Fortunately, the reality was not so grim.One of the first National Security Study Memoranda (NSSMs) President Nixon issued was NSSM 5, a study on US policy toward Japan. The...
Jun 17, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
Historically speaking, women have been consigned to the confines of the private, domestic sphere; tradition dictates that women are the homemaker, the caregiver, and the mother. However, how has this tradition been reconciled with the trend of women moving into the...
Jun 15, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The Nixons
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is one of the most important pieces of environmental policy passed in the 20th century. Often referred to as the Magna Carta of Environmental Policy, it laid out a uniform national approach to environmental issues. Its...
Jun 15, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
By the late 1960s, conditions in the Middle East were tumultuous. Israel had captured and held mass swaths of territory, and tensions with its neighbors were at an all-time high. However, the election of a new U.S. President brought hope in 1969 that stability and...
Jun 15, 2015 | National Security Council, News
After winning the election of 1968, then President-elect Richard Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs Dr. Henry Kissinger set about restoring the National Security Council to its preeminent role in foreign policy planning. Nixon’s belief that foreign...
Jun 10, 2015 | China, Foreign Policy, News
Richard Nixon’s 1953 Far East Trip holds pivotal, if little known, importance in the history of US-China relations. It was on this trip that Nixon realized the true importance of China in the fight against communism, and began to take it seriously as a significant...
