Feb 26, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
“Only a truly convincing shift to new policies of prudence and restraint can accomplish this all-important objective.” — Richard Nixon, 1968 Campaign When President Nixon took office in 1969, inflation, excessive balance of payments deficits and a...
Feb 22, 2016 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/FbqMqgcxvzo] Did you know President Nixon did more to desegregate schools than any other president since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954? In 1968, 68% of black children in the South were attending all-black schools. By 1974,...
Feb 20, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
With President Obama now in the final year of his presidency, the discussions on the editorial pages and talk shows about his legacy will predictably increase in frequency. Some of that discussion, especially during this Black History Month, will understandably...
Nov 5, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
“Without adequate health care, no one can make full use of his or her talents and opportunities. It is thus just as important that economic, racial and social barriers not stand in the way of good health care as it is to eliminate those barriers to a good...
Oct 23, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
In 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, designed to implement a series of reforms that would provide more funding and research opportunities in an effort to find methods of diagnosis and treatment, as well as a cure to the menacing disease. The...
Sep 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
As a follow-up to the first annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality transmitted in 1970, President Nixon released a report titled, “President’s Report of Study and Surveys of the Hazards to Human Health and Safety from Common Environmental Pollution” in...
