Jun 2, 2017 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, Vietnam
An excerpt from James Bowman’s article “A wilderness of mirrors” in The New Criterion. The New York Times ran a curious piece by Peter Baker claiming that, after almost half a century, the long-dead former President Richard M. Nixon had finally been rumbled. There it...
Jun 2, 2017 | Post-Presidential Years, Pre-Presidential Years, Reports, Vietnam
Nixon biographer Farrell misinterprets a word and draws the wrong conclusion In his recent book Richard Nixon: The Life, journalist-biographer John A. Farrell claims to have found a hitherto overlooked document that proves the contention that Richard Nixon, as a...
Sep 23, 2016 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket...
Jul 7, 2016 | News, Nixon Today, Post-Presidential Years, Pre-Presidential Years, Presidency
1. In 1960, Richard Nixon and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were the first U.S presidential candidates to take part in televised debates. The debate series was divided into four parts, each dealing with substantive issues of the time. For those who listened to the...
May 4, 2016 | Communism, Nixon Now Podcast, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
Irwin F. Gellman is Author of “The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262528392″...
