Dec 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The creation of the Domestic Council in 1970, roughly patterned after the National Security Council NSC), consolidated policy making on domestic issues into the Executive Office of the President. Coupled with the transformation of the former Bureau of the Budget into...
Dec 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday, Colonel Robert L. Howard, the most decorated American soldier living, passed away at the age of 70. He served five tours of duty in Vietnam and the extraordinary list of honors and unit citations he received in those years is itemized in his Wikipedia...
Dec 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
With the prospect of debates among British party leaders, an article in The Australian opines: Appearances do not only matter in television debating: they are, in some ways, the only things that matter. The first TV debate in 1960 pitted a sweaty, unshaven Richard...
Dec 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Dec 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
‘Twas the night before Christmas: this photograph of PN (holding Checkers), six-year-old Tricia, four-year-old Julie, and the thirty-eight year old Vice President- Elect was actually taken on 20 December at their home in Washington.
Dec 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Tonight, Diane Sawyer, former aide in the Nixon White House who also was an editorial assistant for RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, made her debut as anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight. She did not get around to mentioning her old boss. But over at NBC Nightly...