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...
Sep 16, 2008 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
Bob Hoover, the book-review editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (and, thus, belonging to a breed now perhaps more rare than the ivory-billed woodpecker) has written an article for that paper concerning Sam Roberts’ recent New York Times stories about the...
Jan 1, 1985 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/7RDt9EghQFw] Ted Koppel, anchor of Nightline, interviews Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and former President Richard Nixon. The two discuss contemporary foreign policy issues and the growth of Southeast Asia following the Vietnam...
Aug 23, 1972 | Nixon Today, Nixon TV, Pat Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/cMcIKnSHtmc] A tribute to First Lady Pat Nixon narrated by Jimmy Stewart.