Jan 28, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
RN lends a hand to President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. Richard Nixon began his Foreign Affairs journal entry, “Asia After Vietnam,” with the sentiment that Vietnam had so long dominated the American psyche that it distorted its picture of the entirety of...
Jan 27, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon meet with Pope Paul VI on September 29, 1970. When the positions of the supreme Pontiff were so often met by the opportunistic ardor of both Republicans and Democrats, President Nixon sought audience with the Pope not as a...
Jan 25, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift’s Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in...
Jan 21, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
After the numerically inferior forces of Israel defeated the Soviet-armed Egyptians and Syrians in less than a week of warfare in 1967, the Soviet Union escalated their rearming efforts among these key Arabian allies. While the United States wanted peace in the Middle...
Jan 20, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vice President Nixon
A version of this story ran Martin Luther King Day 2013: VP Nixon with MLK in 1957 “Let me say how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,” were the words of...
Jan 17, 2014 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
The Fullerton home where Richard Nixon lived with his aunt Carrie Wildermuth while he attended Fullerton Union High School was commemorated on January 9, marking RN’s 101st birthday. Former California State Assemblyman Chris Norby led the effort to get the...
