Sep 23, 2016 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket...
May 6, 2016 | News, Vice President Nixon
1. On July 24, 1959, Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in a series of heated discussions at an American exhibition in Moscow. As the two continued to debate, they moved through several exhibits including a television studio where part...
Sep 2, 2015 | Nixon Biographies, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV, Vice President Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/n4L1gRh6fSo] We think we know the history of Ike and Dick, but Dr. Irv Gellman reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon in his new book, “The President and the Apprentice.” Dr. Gellman’s new book debunks the...
Jun 5, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Japan, News, Vice President Nixon
The presidency of Richard Nixon played a crucial role in the development of post-World War II relations between Japan and the United States, which culminated in the return of Okinawa to the Japanese government in 1972. However, RN’s encouragement of Japanese autonomy...
Jan 20, 2014 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vice President Nixon
A version of this story ran Martin Luther King Day 2013: VP Nixon with MLK in 1957 “Let me say how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,” were the words of...
Sep 21, 2013 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential...