Feb 22, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
President Nixon spent the entirety of his second day in China absorbed in meetings and talks with Chinese and American officials. While her husband was occupied attending to matters of state, First Lady Pat Nixon ventured out into the new frontier of Chinese...
Feb 1, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
February 1, 2012: Secretary of State George Shultz took a look back at his years of service in the Nixon administration, remembering how he and the President led the charge to peacefully desegregate schools in America’s South. As part of a series of Nixon Legacy...
Jan 19, 2012 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
Ending The Draft: The Creation of an All-Volunteer Force January 19, 2012 The Foundation and National Archives hosted Nixon campaign and White House officials who worked with President Nixon to end the draft and create the modern, professional, and all-volunteer force...
Oct 29, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foundation News, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/6DWzoXCHT_M] October 19, 2011: On the 38th anniversary of America’s first energy crisis caused by the 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo, three Nixon administration officials who formulated and executed the thirty-seventh President’s energy...
Aug 18, 2010 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
As the summer of 1948 uneventfully passed through July and entered August, Congressmen and Senators eagerly awaited a much needed respite to escape the sweltering heat characteristic of a Washington summer. As they lightheartedly made calls to reserve flights and...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
Introduction The Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget were created on July 1, 1970. The result was that policy making on major domestic issues was consolidated into the Executive Office of the President. Henceforth, on domestic affairs—as had been the...
