Jun 1, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
By Robert Nedelkoff As Chris Barber points out in this blog , the current season of AMC’s long running series Mad Men has been exploring the life of adman Don Draper and his contemporaries during the first months of the Nixon Administration. But longtime fans of...
May 29, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon observes the West Point Military Academy Corp of Cadets drill on May 29, 1971. 43 years ago today on May 29, 1971, President Nixon delivered the commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Grasping at the...
May 13, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
“Energy Czar” William Simon, as “Energy Czar,” discussing an energy conference with President Nixon on 9 February 1974. On 8 May 1974, William Simon was sworn in as the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury after serving in the Nixon Administration as...
May 9, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon delivers his first inaugural address on January 20, 1969. By Chris Barber Richard Nixon made another telling appearance on one of television’s most compelling dramas of the last ten years. Mad Men, a television series set in the 1960s that centers its...
May 1, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Richard Nixon presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Duke Ellington on the music legend’s 70th Birthday, April 29, 1969. By Chris Barber A close look at President Nixon will reveal a man who grew up with a great sense of admiration for music. An...
Apr 25, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, President Nixon spoke quite candidly at the Mississippi Economic Council, treating those gathered not only to an economic lesson but allowing them — and those listening on television and radio — to grasp his strategic vision of a new...
