Mar 6, 2015 | News, Supreme Court
President Nixon presents Lewis Powell (shown on the left of RN) and William Rehnquist (on right of RN) framed gifts recognizing their confirmation as Supreme Court Justices. (December 22, 1971) In October of 1971, President Nixon would be tasked with nominating two...
Feb 26, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News
In an effort to curb the amount of culturally and historically significant artifacts being illegally trafficked between the United States and Mexico, officials from each country met in 1967 and agreed to develop methods to prevent the unauthorized transfer of...
Feb 20, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon meeting with future Nobel Laureate Dr. Milton Friedman, distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and the leading voice of the President’s Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force. On February 21st, 1970, the Gates...
Feb 10, 2015 | News, Supreme Court
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court as seen on April 20, 1972. By Evan Vassar The Warren Court, throughout its judicial history, ruled on a myriad of cases that would leave Richard Nixon concerned with the Court’s use and expansion of judicial power. Among the...
Feb 9, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
The Gates Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, made possible by the works and recommendations of Martin Anderson and Milton Friedman. In April of 1967, Martin Anderson, who served as the research director for the Nixon Campaign of 1968, would go on to write a...
Feb 6, 2015 | News, Wilderness Years
Richard Nixon and family show their papers to an East Berlin officer before entering the east side of the divided city in 1963. Immediately after RN’s move to New York in 1963 he and his family left on a vacation to tour Europe for six weeks. Between June and August...
