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Audio: RN’s Forgotten Visit to Ireland
Ireland's RTE Radio One will be broadcasting a documentary this Saturday at 10:05am (PST) to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon's trip to Ireland. Click here to listen to the documentary. The Independent, one of the country's premier dailies, also...
9.29.1971 – RN Presents Medal of Freedom to NATO Chief
Manlio Brosio, “one of the truly great diplomats of the world; a man who has given his public life to the service of peace and then capped it finally as Secretary General for NATO, an instrument for peace, of course, as well as an instrument for freedom.” It seems...
Sabato: RN A Pioneer of “New Media”
When the term “new media” is used today, no one thinks of television. But 50 years ago television was on the cutting edge of technology, and it was about to alter American politics in a manner that no other “new media” has managed to do since. Most point to September...
9.28.1972 – RN and the Fight Against Cancer
Cancer is among the top killers in the United States, affecting many millions of people. Often times, people you may have known for your entire life suddenly change and become sickly, less active, and much weaker, and often times their quality of life plummets. In the...
Video: Hub Fans Bid Nixon Fan Adieu
A big topic of dinner-table conversation on the evening of September 27, 1960, was the first Kennedy-Nixon debate that had taken place the day before. Many Americans wondered how the two candidates would do when next they met. But the following evening, the attention...
39 Years Ago – RN Changes U.S.-Japanese Relations
From NBC's Anchorage, Alaska affiliate, KTTU: Thirty-nine years ago Sunday, a significant state visit by Emperor Hirohito of Japan changed the relationship between the U.S. and Japan -- and President Richard Nixon was in Anchorage to meet him. Watch the video here....
9.27.72 – RN Creates First Anti-Terrorism Initiative
With unrest at home, an economic slump and two wars in the Middle East, our 21st century America faces several challenges. Among the most prominent is the ever-present threat of terrorism. On September 27, 1972, President Richard Nixon issued a statement in regard to...
The Road To The ’60 Debates
As today's fiftieth anniversary of the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon concludes, it's worth thinking about the long, long process that led to it. The series of debates across between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln became part of American...
Video: Meet the Press Commemorates 50 Years
In a special edition of Meet the Press co-sponsored with the University of Virginia, UVA's Larry Sabato, former RN aide Patrick Buchanan, former JFK aide Ted Sorensen and journalist Sander Van Oker remember the first RN-JFK debate: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news,...
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program…
On a late September Monday evening fifty years ago today, 80 million Americans (a number approaching half the population of the United States at the time) sat before their flickering black and white television sets to watch the first televised presidential debate in...