Aug 16, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As President Nixon and his campaign team prepared for his reelection bid in the spring of 1972, a small tropical storm was winding its way north from the Yucatan Peninsula. By June 17, the storm had increased dramatically in intensity and speed, tearing its way...
Aug 13, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In The Guardian (UK), Mark Lawson writes that he used to think that television was bad for historical literacy. Recently, though, while watching an episode of Glee, I wondered if this theory was entirely right and asked a passing 11-year-old to list all the US...
Aug 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On August 10, 1973, President Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act, hopeful that it would not only encourage farmers to expand and produce at full capacity, but also help halt rising inflation levels. The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act set...
Aug 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In a nationally televised address on August 8, 1969, RN unveiled a series of domestic policies aimed at combating welfare dependency, alleviating poverty, and making government a more effective and responsible actor at solving America’s urban crisis. The...
Aug 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Korda, author of Ike: An American Hero, comments on David and Julie Eisenhower’s new book Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969: “David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s GOING HOME TO A GLORY is a wonderfully...
Aug 5, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
While President Nixon’s visit to Romania in 1969 was not his first to that country, it was the first visit by a President of the United States to Romania, the first to a socialist country, and the first to a state of Eastern Europe. Two years prior, having had his...
