Oct 13, 2018 | News, Post-Presidential Years
President Nixon in his New York offices in October 1987 (Ben Martin/Time Life Magazine). In an October 1987 article for Time Life magazine, former President Nixon reflected on the history of the 20th Century, and American leadership at the century’s turn. He said that...
Sep 15, 2018 | Communism, Foreign Policy, News, Post-Presidential Years
The 37th President reflects on how the West can help influence new democracies in the East. President Nixon was a reflective thinker, and would daily outline political and foreign policy strategy on his ubiquitous yellow pads, or in memos to his staff and in...
Sep 10, 2018 | News, Post-Presidential Years, Russia, Soviet Union
President Nixon across Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in March 1991. (Richard Nixon Foundation) In an earlier article, we discussed former President Nixon’s advice to President George H.W. Bush about how to conduct war and diplomacy in the run up to the Gulf War....
Sep 4, 2018 | Foreign Policy, News, Post-Presidential Years
President Richard Nixon with George H.W. Bush upon being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. 12 January 1970 (George H.W. Presidential Library). On Christmas Day 1990, three weeks before United States’ forces launched Operation Desert Storm to expel...
Aug 21, 2018 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Post-Presidential Years
President Nixon seated with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Tokyo on April 6, 1993 (Richard Nixon Foundation). On April 21, 1993, former President Nixon — purely from memory and without notes — addressed former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu and...
Jul 18, 2017 | Artifacts, China, Post-Presidential Years
January 29, 1979, President Jimmy Carter, former President Richard Nixon, and Chinese Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping at the White House (Bettman/Corbis). In April 1990, President Nixon wrote a letter to Deng Xiaoping, then the leader of the People’s Republic of China,...
