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Video: Uncovering the Mysteries of Watergate
Former Nixon Domestic Council official, Watergate defense lawyer, and author Geoff Shepard presented the fourth Richard Nixon Legacy Forum Monday. Shepard spoke about the conventional wisdom of Watergate, five alternative perspectives on how the controversy unfolded,...
Geoff Shepard Now Taking Questions for Watergate Forum
Geoff Shepard - former Domestic Council Official, author and Watergate Defense lawyer -- is now taking questions for discussion on the mysteries of Watergate. Submit your questions by email at [email protected]
The Mysteries of Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/hZIF0oSXBJE] May 24, 2010: Even forty years later, Watergate remains America's greatest political scandal. Dozens of books have been written by principal Watergate players; hundreds of books and articles have been written by various...
Kissinger Keynotes Washington Conference
President Nixon's National Security Adviser and Secretary of State addressed a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington Wednesday, May 19. His conversation with the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland was apart of a two day conference on America's foreign policy...
Domestic Policy Initiatives of The Nixon Years
President Nixon’s primacy in foreign affairs has long been acknowledged even by his harshest critics. But his domestic record has tended both to be overlooked as a result of the conventional wisdom -- particularly in the academy and the media -- that he was a...
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie answers a question asked by Newark Star-Ledger reporter and editorial page editor Tom Moran at a press conference yesterday in Trenton. [youtube https://youtu.be/heb3mQW34BY]
Another President With “Game”?
Many articles about President Obama have suggested that he is the first President to display any considerable skill as a basketball player. (Herbert Hoover used to toss a six-pound medicine ball over a volleyball net, but Hooverball’s another game altogether.) But...
Nixon Went To Cairo First
In June 2009, President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...
A Legacy Of Peace
As a youngster in Yorba Linda, Richard Nixon would lie awake at night in the small attic bedroom he shared with his brothers. He would listen to the whistles of passing trains and imagine the places they would visit. It is only one of many paradoxes in RN’s career...
Tom Shachtman Writes About Barack Obama (Sr.)
There has been considerable discussion in TNN about The Forty Years’ War, Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman’s book about foreign policy in the Nixon, Reagan, and both Bush eras. But it was not the only book Tom Shachtman published last year. St. Martin’s Press also...