Aug 26, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey Among President Nixon’s many underrated accomplishments, perhaps his greatest is his substantial legacy in civil rights. While the movement’s defining laws, The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965), were signed by President Lyndon...
Aug 23, 2013 | News, Post-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey When Richard Nixon left the Oval Office in 1974, many assumed he would maintain a low profile. Instead, he confounded expectations and, through an assiduous dedication to writing and traveling, he remained as vital to American and global politics as...
Aug 22, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey One of the most pressing issues facing America today is that of veterans affairs. As thousands of U.S. troops come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the VA Department has struggled to keep up with providing the benefits and health care they’ll need....
Aug 20, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
A few months after the relatively quiet and peaceful opening of hundreds of newly integrated school districts across the South in the Fall of 1970, a unique letter reached President Nixon’s desk. The two page letter came from Ralph Savarese, a Methodist preacher in...
Aug 19, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
In the Statement on Signing Bill Designating the Ventana Wilderness, California, forty-four years ago, President Nixon wrote, “Wilderness, unspoiled by man, is deeply rooted in American history and tradition. In the past, our task was to conquer it. Today we must...
Aug 19, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
With Ben Bernanke leaving the Federal Reserve this fall, one is left to wonder who will be appointed next chairman: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers or the current Vice Chairman, Janet Yellen. While Yellen receives much of the criticism concerning...
