May 23, 2022 | Nixon Today, Soviet Union
On the heels of a historic visit to China in February, President Nixon made another historic first in May 1972 by becoming the first U.S. President to visit Moscow. This was part of Nixon’s grand strategy of foreign policy centered on Triangular Diplomacy—seizing on...
May 13, 2022 | Artifacts, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
May 15th marks the 50th Anniversary of First Lady Pat Nixon’s debut of the newly refurbished Blue Room. The Blue Room was returned to its original French Empire style inspired by the French Bellangé suite of furniture President James Monroe purchased for the room in...
Apr 26, 2022 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Speeches, Nixon Today, Political Strategy, Vietnam
“My fellow Americans, let us therefore unite as a nation in a firm and wise policy of real peace–not the peace of surrender, but peace with honor–not just peace in our time, but peace for generations to come.” President Nixon concluded his speech to the American...
Apr 21, 2022 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Presidency
During his first State of the Union address, delivered in 1970, President Nixon designated the environment as the defining issue of the new decade. “The great question of the Seventies is…shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage...
Apr 13, 2022 | China, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
This April marks the 50th anniversary of the arrival of a pair of Giant Pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. This followed President and Mrs. Nixon’s historic trip to the People’s Republic of China in February 1972, which set the stage for normalization of...
Apr 7, 2022 | Nixon and Sports, Nixon Today
“The nation’s number-one baseball fan” – this is how reporter Cliff Evans referred to President Nixon in 1972 and it’s a description he lived up to throughout his life. From attending his first in-person major league baseball game as a young law student in...
