Jul 24, 2013 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon with conscripted troops in S. Vietnam, 1969. This month marks 40 years since the formal transition from mandatory, conscripted military service to all-volunteer armed services, which was initiated under President Nixon. The road there was bumpy and...
Jul 23, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Reading the introductory remarks of Carol Browner at the dedication ceremony of the EPA building in Washington DC that took place on July 17, one could easily believe the agency is only twenty years old, and a product of the Clinton Administration. “Twenty years ago...
Jul 22, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
We all know Richard Nixon as the 37th President of the United States. But did you know he has appeared as a character in more than 184 comics? Ranging from Batman to Superman, shifting from hero to villain, President Nixon has been a central force in many comic book...
Jul 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Former adviser to President Nixon, Leonard Garment, passed away earlier this week at the age of 89. After assisting with Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, Garment joined the White House Staff in 1969, serving as special consultant to the President on Domestic...
Jul 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Today’s public loves their lists, whether it is Forbes’s World’s Billionaires, Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, or People’s Most Beautiful. With much of the same fervor, the women of the Nixon administration also became the subject of media attention....
Jul 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/pdf6ZN9X-ds] July 2013: President Nixon raised the bar on energy policy and led the country towards greater independence from foreign sources, said Jay Hakes, the Director of the Carter Presidential Library in a talk at the Nixon...