Nov 12, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency
Documents from the National Archives detail how the Nixon administration approached the President’s re-election in 1972. The midterm elections of 1970 garnered minimal gains for the Republican Party and the prognosis of election year 1972 appeared pessimistic....
Oct 8, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
To plant the seeds of bureaucratic reform, President Nixon sought after advisors who were characterized by intellectual pugnacity and a challenger’s spirit. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the eventual head of the President’s Urban Affairs Counsel, was just the right man to...
Oct 7, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey As the issue of immigration reform is debated in Washington and America witnesses a growing Latin American voting demographic, many might be surprised to learn that the first “Latino” President was none other than Richard Nixon. In his first year in...
Oct 1, 2013 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
Today’s beginning of the “shutdown” of the U.S. federal government tops an icy chapter in the relationship between our branches of government. President Nixon entered office as the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1848, with both houses of Congress controlled...
Sep 26, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
On March 5, 1972, President Nixon delivered a Special Message to the Congress onSpecial Revenue Sharing for Urban Community Development. Continuing his vision for domestic affairs, President Nixon formulated policies on the revival of not only America’s urban cores,...
Sep 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
“We passed a milestone of national awareness when we recognized for the first time that the bounty of energy resources we had taken for granted for so long was not as limitless as we had once thought.” RN, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Economic powers such as Germany...
