Nov 26, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon signs the amendment to the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 on November 26, 1969. On November 26, 1969, President Nixon signed an amendment to the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 that began the random selection or “draft lottery” for...
Nov 25, 2014 | News, Vietnam
President Nixon presents medals to members of a search and rescue mission to Son Tay, Vietnam, on November 25, 1970. In a public statement on December 12, 1969, President Nixon set forth his administration’s policy with regard to U.S. prisoners of war, an aspect...
Nov 21, 2014 | News, Political Strategy, Republican Party
President Nixon strategizes with his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, in the Oval Office. Throughout his life, Richard Nixon displayed a tremendous mental fortitude in all that he endeavored. He carried on over this discipline as President of the United States, often...
Nov 18, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News
We need these freeways, and we need the Metro–badly. I have always believed, and today reaffirm my belief, that the Capital area must have the balanced, modern transportation system which they will comprise. Richard Nixon The early days of DC Metro construction,...
Nov 17, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News
The men of the past thought in terms of blockades and walls; the men of the future will think in terms of open channels. The men of the past were trapped in the gray overcast of cold war; the men of the future, a future toward which we will all work, if only they...
Oct 15, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News
Democratic Senator John L. McClellan (far right) from Arkansas sponsored the OCCA in Congress as the bill passed both houses within months. Forty-four years ago today, President Richard Nixon signed the “Organized Crime Control Act” (OCCA) into law at the Justice...
