Jun 6, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
One of President Nixon’s many successful domestic policies was his fight against organized crime in the United States. On June 4, forty-one years ago, Nixon issued a statement regarding the signing of Executive Order 11534, which would create the National Council on...
Jun 6, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On the evening of June 3, 1970, President Nixon addressed the nation on the subject of the controversial and frequently protested bombings of Cambodian sanctuaries. Begun in the spring of 1969, these classified bombings were intended to incapacitate Communist forces...
Jun 4, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger passed away today. He was 80. Eagleburger joined the foreign service in 1957 following service in the Army and completion of graduate school. He went on to serve on the National Council under President Nixon, as...
Jun 1, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Last Friday marked a century since the birth in South Dakota of a son to a small-town druggist named Hubert Horatio Humphrey. That boy, who received the same sonorous appelation, grew up to be mayor of Minneapolis (he moved to the Land of a Thousand Lakes for college...
May 29, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
At the Christian Science Monitor, Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term “news conference” as an alternative to “press conference.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed’s first-ever official press conference...
May 21, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Former Congressman James Rogan visited the Nixon Library Thursday to discuss his new book Catching our Flag: Behind the Scenes of a Presidential Impeachment. A prosecutor and judge by trade, Rogan ascended to the elite House Judiciary Committee as a freshman...
