May 1, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Richard Nixon presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Duke Ellington on the music legend’s 70th Birthday, April 29, 1969. By Chris Barber A close look at President Nixon will reveal a man who grew up with a great sense of admiration for music. An...
Apr 25, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, President Nixon spoke quite candidly at the Mississippi Economic Council, treating those gathered not only to an economic lesson but allowing them — and those listening on television and radio — to grasp his strategic vision of a new...
Apr 24, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Photo Courtesy of bigshootout.com By Chris Barber In honor of the “The Game of the Century,” the famed 1969 Texas-Arkansas battle for College football’s number 1, filmmaker Mike Looney and writer George Francisco recently produced a documentary entitled...
Apr 23, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
Richard Nixon meeting with the 1989 Phillies Coaching Staff at Veteran’s Stadium. In a 1990 interview on the Today Show, Bryant Gumbel asked President Nixon, “If you hadn’t have gone into politics what would you have done?” President Nixon responded, with a smile:...
Apr 9, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
RN and members of the Herter Committee stand in front of rice fields in northern Italy. By Chris Barber On Monday, July 30, 1947, then Congressman Richard Nixon was chosen, to his pleased astonishment, by Speaker Joe Martin to be one of nineteen members representing a...
Apr 8, 2014 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev have an informal conversation. Robert Wilkie of Human Events asks the question many Nixon supporters have asked in light of America’s current foreign policy foibles: Where is Dick Nixon when you need him? During...