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RN’s 1960 Acceptance Speech

Fifty years ago this week, RN accepted the Republican Party's 1960 presidential nomination.  One passage in his acceptance speech is striking: And now I want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as a...

Video: The Birth of the Nixon Doctrine

As the Apollo XI crew prepared for its final descent back into Earth’s atmosphere, President Nixon embarked on a world tour to visit islands in the southern Pacific and countries on mainland Eurasia. The trip also allowed Nixon to greet the Apollo XI astronauts when...

Daniel Schorr and “Follow the Money”

Daniel Schorr, who just passed away, performed a valuable service to Nixon buffs by discovering that Deep Throat never really said "follow the money."  While writing one of his NPR commentaries years ago, he wanted to find out where it appeared in the book version of...