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...
Sep 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
A May 6, 1971 memorandum from Domestic council staff member Will Kriegsman to Council of Economic Advisors Chair Paul McCracken, describes a meeting between the coal industry and representatives of President Nixon’s administration about the crash program for the...
Sep 1, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
On October 1, 1969, President Nixon established the President’s Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities to study the status of women in American life and to recommend what could be done on the governmental level to improve their lives and advance...
Jun 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
In a memorandum to the heads of the executive departments and agencies dated April 21, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a program to recruit top women for mid- and high-level positions in the federal government. The president wrote, “it has been my desire to...
