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What Would Richard Nixon Think? Session 1
[youtube https://youtu.be/yE6BTbiD968] <p>October 14, 2010: Featuring Nixon Center scholars Paul Saunders, Geoffrey Kemp, and Drew Thompson. Moderated by James Coyle of Chapman University.</p>
What Would Richard Nixon Think, Session II
[youtube https://youtu.be/AqHNggG40TY] October 14, 2010: A scholarly discussion of President Nixon's realist perspectives and how he would deal with America's foreign challenges today. This program features presentations by Chapman University Student Matthew...
Video: Legacy Forum on RN’s Latino Initiatives
The Nixon Foundation hosted its 7th in a year-long series of Legacy Forums on Monday, Creating Opportunities for Latino Americans, featuring a panel of distinguished Nixon White House and Campaign officials who first reached out to America’s Hispanic community,...
Callista and Speaker Newt Gingrich Return to Nixon Library
Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista returned to the Nixon Library Friday for a special screening of their new documentary film, "Nine Days that Changed the World," the story of Pope John Paul II’s historic 1979 pilgrimage to Poland, how he strengthened the...
The Forgotten Lesson of 1964
For years, during campaign after campaign, moderate Republicans—in various shades of pastel—have preached a big-tent gospel, one that insisted on conservatives being good soldiers in support of the GOP. And the record has shown that conservative minded Republicans...
How Richard Nixon Saved Israel
Since land was set aside by the United Nations to establish the State of Israel in 1948, a series of regional and ideological conflicts – and, indeed, often violent fighting – has broken out between Israel and the Arab States, collectively known as the Arab-Israeli...
Another View Of The Ellsberg Documentary
The Most Dangerous Man In America, last year's rather one-sided documentary feature about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, has gotten hosannahs from all the expected places, as well as an Oscar nomination. Last night the film had its television premiere on...
10.4.2010 – RN Completes European Tour
Winding up his whirlwind trip to Europe of September/October 1970, President Nixon spoke with reporters in Ireland and recounted the many diplomatic achievements: “The purpose of this trip, just as has been the purpose of my other trips abroad,” the President noted,...
Dr. Kissinger On The Lessons Of Vietnam
Today, at the State Department in Washington, a two-day conference about the lessons of the Vietnam War concluded. The conference was opened with remarks by Secretary of State Clinton, and featured panel discussions about the war that included a number of eminent...
9.30.1972 – S.A.L.T. I Takes Effect
The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty – or SALT I – was the first anti-ballistic missile treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union, and resulted in groundbreaking, unprecedented levels of agreement between the two ideological foes. For the first...