Aug 22, 2014 | News, Nixon and Celebrities, Nixon Today, Presidency
Sammy Davis, Jr. was master of ceremonies for the entertainment portion of the Young Voters Rally at the Miami Marine Stadium. (Photo: UPI) 42 years ago today, without referring to notes, President Nixon spoke to a crowd of young voters at a rally in Miami, Florida on...
Aug 15, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4uRvkAPhA] The Challenge of a Peacetime Economy “The time has come for a new economic policy,” insisted President Nixon in an address to the nation on August 15 1971. “It targets unemployment, inflation, and...
Mar 23, 2014 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The Nixons
Former members of the Nixon White House staff discuss First Lady Pat Nixon’s role on the 1972 trip to the People’s Republic of China. By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. As Michelle Obama makes her...
Mar 18, 2014 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, The New Nixon
By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. In celebration of what would have been First Lady Pat Nixon’s 102nd birthday, let us remember some of her remarkable accomplishments as First Lady. – She was the most...
Feb 11, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, Republican Party
The Nixons and Connallys at the Connally ranch in August 1972. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s appointment of John Connally as the United States’ sixty-first Secretary of the Treasury and the early stages of what, at least at the time and to...
Feb 1, 2014 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Sports
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
