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...
Feb 28, 2022 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Today
In his final book Beyond Peace —published posthumously— President Nixon wrote: “Throughout the Cold War, we looked forward to a time when we might live in a peaceful world, with harmonious international relations, prosperous economies reaping the benefits of unlimited...
Feb 21, 2022 | Nixon Today
50 years ago today President and Mrs. Nixon landed on Air Force One in Beijing to begin their historic visit to the People’s Republic of China. Read about why President Nixon went to China and how this became the most important diplomatic overture of the second...
Feb 21, 2022 | Nixon Today
From the Memoirs of Richard Nixon Volume Two: On February 17, 1972 at 10:35 A.M. we left Andrews Air Force Base for Peking. As the plane gathered speed and then took to the air, I thought of Malraux’s words. We were embarking upon a voyage of philosophical...
