Jul 17, 2013 | Middle East, News, The New Nixon
Major news sources throughout the country have reported the US Congress has delayed the shipment of military aid to the Syrian rebels. The Muslim Brotherhood, who represented the largest faction of rebel fighters, has stated that they felt, “abandoned and...
Jul 17, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
During the car ride from the Beijing Airport on February 21, 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai turned to President Nixon and said, “Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world—twenty five years of no communication.” Nixon’s week-long trip to China built a bridge...
Jul 16, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
In an open letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee sent on July 10, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urged Congress to rethink the impending $52 billion cut from the defense budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The planned cuts are a result of the Budget Control Act...
Jul 16, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On June 10, President Obama announced the appointment of Betsey Stevenson, economist and associate professor at the University of Michigan, to the Council of Economic Advisors. This is the not the first instance of the Obama Administration’s initiative for the...
Jul 15, 2013 | China, Inside The Oval Office, News, The New Nixon
July 15th marks the 42nd anniversary of one of the most jaw-dropping moments of Richard Nixon’s presidency: the announcement of his trip to China. The Nixon administration had been secretly preparing for closer relations with the second-most-powerful Communist nation...
Jun 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
This week marks 40 years since the memorable visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the United States. At the invitation of President Nixon, Brezhnev’s trip was his first to the U.S. and their second summit in...