Apr 23, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
The U.S. Ping-Pong team became the first group of Americans to visit mainland China since the Communist takeover in 1949. “You have opened a new chapter in the relations between the American and Chinese people,” said Premier Chou En-Lai. “I am confident,” he...
Apr 8, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Lady Thatcher, one of the giants of the 20th century, passed on yesterday at 87. In his most revealing memoir, In the Arena, RN wrote fondly about the Iron Lady: There is no one I would rather have on my side in a fight than Margaret Thatcher. She deserves the major...
Mar 26, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama’s trip to Israel — his first as POTUS — has appropriately generated much interest and intrigue, given the delicate state of affairs in the Middle East. It is appropriate on such an occasion, as many media outlets have done, to recall...
Mar 2, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
Pennsylvania is, for my money, the most beautiful state east of the Mississippi, as I was reminded again during a recent two-day trip that took me to State College, home of the Nittany Lions. Driving through that landscape of mountains and forests, down those roads...
Feb 23, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday, Rex W. Scouten died in a hospital near his home in Fairfax, Virginia, at the age of 88. Although Mr. Scouten’s name may be familiar only to a smallish minority of America – which was the way he always preferred it – those who are...
Feb 5, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
One of the most widely cited documents by the United Nations is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which nearly every nation of the world is a signatory. The goal: stop the production and rapid spread of fissile nuclear material to develop dangerous bombs and,...
