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...
Apr 10, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
President Nixon organized his White House into three functional areas: The Office of the President, the National Security Council and the Domestic Council. Each President makes his own decisions on how he wants his White House to operate. There have been seven...
Sep 26, 2009 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
In early June of this year readers of Washington’s two dailies woke up to the news of the arrest of a much-liked, sophisticated, rather affluent local couple. W[alter] Kendall Myers, when FBI agents put the cuffs on him, was 72 years old; a great-grandson of...
Mar 25, 2009 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
May 31 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Alger Hiss’s first trial for perjury, during which the onetime advisor to FDR at Yalta and secretary-general of the founding session of the United Nations in 1945 managed to secure a hung jury, thanks to an...