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...
Oct 14, 2014 | News, Political Strategy, Republican Party
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a Ken Burns documentary film that aired last month chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, members of the influential family who shaped much of 20th century American politics. One of Richard Nixon’s...
Oct 14, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefs President Nixon on the Middle East Peace talks. On October 21, 1973 Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon’s Secretary of State arrived in Moscow to conduct secret negotiations with the Soviet Union to bring an end to the war in...
Oct 8, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
The U.S. Air Force shipped 22,395 tons of tanks, artillery, ammunition, and supplies to Israel aboard C-141 Starlifters and C-5 Galaxies during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. After the first week of battle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, it was clear to many observers that...
