Diane Sawyer Speaks About Richard Nixon

As many of TNN’s readers know, Diane Sawyer, the veteran newswoman who now anchors ABC’s World News Tonight, spent the 1970s working in Richard Nixon’s White House, then, after his resignation from the Presidency, in San Clemente as his assistant for...

Nixon, Obama, and Health Insurance Price Controls

Steve Chapman writes of the president’s proposal to control health insurance premiums: Barack Obama has often modeled his policies on Franklin Roosevelt. Lately, though, he’s been coming across more as Richard Nixon Lite. In 1971, fed up with the steady...

Bacevich: How About Some Nixonian Boldness

Scholar and retired soldier, Andrew Bacevich, wants U.S. leaders to be bold and abandon designs for redefining NATO’s mission: When Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s famous assessment of the situation in Afghanistan leaked to the media last year, most observers...

Watch Nixon Legacy Forum Live on C-SPAN.org

Update (2/22/2010, 7:28am PST): The Effective Use of the President’s Time is now available on demand: The second Nixon Legacy forum, The Effective Use of the President’s Time is now streaming live on C-SPAN.org.Watch as four West Wing staff discuss how...

President Obama, Secretary Clinton Praise Gen. Haig

President Obama issued a Statement from the White House on the death of General Haig: Today we mourn the loss of Alexander Haig, a great American who served our country with distinction.  General Haig exemplified our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who...