Dec 18, 2013 | News, Sports, The New Nixon
Documents from the archives of President Nixon’s personal file collection reveal the President’s personal interest in football fatalities and methods towards reducing such incidents, particularly as they occurred in interscholastic high school competition where...
Dec 17, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Post-Presidential Years
Earlier this month, an article by Anneta Konstantinides at ABC News’s site considered the question of what President Obama might do after he leaves office on January 20, 2017. The President recently joked that he might go to work for ESPN, but on a more...
Dec 13, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
With Christmas a mere twelve days away, we are reminded of an American Christmas tradition that dates back to the 1920s when Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States: the annual lighting of the national Christmas tree. We are also reminded of President...
Dec 10, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
In a Washington Post article last week, commentator Charles Krauthammer criticized the Obama administration’s response to the definitive foreign policy crises of our time, citing failures across the board on the three ultimate international issues of the past month:...
Dec 7, 2013 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
RN answered the call for service following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946. On this day, 72 years ago, Pearl Harbor was attacked and bombed by an Imperial Japanese Navy. On the anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy,”...
Dec 7, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On the night of May 9, 1970, President Nixon made an unannounced and unprecedented visit to the Lincoln Memorial after his decision to attack North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia. He spoke to the youth who had been camped there preparing for the next day’s...