Jun 5, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Japan, News, Vice President Nixon
The presidency of Richard Nixon played a crucial role in the development of post-World War II relations between Japan and the United States, which culminated in the return of Okinawa to the Japanese government in 1972. However, RN’s encouragement of Japanese autonomy...
Jun 5, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
A letter written by a concerned citizen offers an insight into the public reaction to school desegregation as it was carried out under the Nixon Administration. The author had previously submitted a letter consisting of 204 signatures protesting the school’s...
Jun 5, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
Calls from American women from all walks of life for an increased presence of women in the federal government came as early as President Nixon’s first inauguration. The head of this criticism, Washington Post reporter Vera Glaser, charged that only three of the first...
May 27, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
Throughout his administration years of 1969-74 President Richard Nixon time and again voiced his opposition to the compulsory busing of school children as a means to counteract segregation. The tax burden of mass busing, the dehumanizing act of reducing school...
May 26, 2015 | Foreign Policy, News
From left to right: Howard K. Smith of ABC, Eric Sevareid of CBS, John Chancellor of NBC, and President Richard Nixon. It was television day, as H.R. Haldeman, President Nixon’s chief of staff wrote in his diaries. A day when President Nixon would lock himself...
May 26, 2015 | News, Nixon and Celebrities
RN and John Wayne converse at La Casa Pacifica during a Republican fundraiser on August 27, 1978. Today is John Wayne’s having been born on May 26, 1907. In honor of the Duke, the New Nixon blog takes a look at his relationship with President Nixon. During the...
