News
New York Times Obituary of Walter Hickel
The New York Times has just put up a lengthy obituary of Walter J. Hickel, two-time Alaskan Governor and President Nixon’s first Secretary of the Interior who died last night in Anchorage. With Governor Hickel’s passing, George P. Shultz (Secretary of Labor,...
Hickel Was One Of A Kind
Wally Hickel was one of a kind. When President Nixon appointed him Secretary of the Interior, he asked me to help Wally get his office organized. Secretary Hickel became my first boss in the Nixon Administration and my life long friend. When Frank Sinatra sings, “I...
Walter J. Hickel 1919-2010
"The conservationists cheered me when we fought against pollution or when we preserved park lands; they attacked me when we advanced the Alaska Pipeline and the North America energy grid. My friends and associates in business were equally perplexed. I was not their...
RN’s Conservationist
Former Alaska Governor and RN Interior Secretary Walter Hickel died today. He was 90. Hickel was a trail blazer for President Nixon’s environmental agenda early on, leading the cleanup after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil rig explosion and conservation efforts for the...
Can America Have a Coherent Foreign Policy?
[youtube https://youtu.be/b0lmyvmoQdE] May 2010: A discussion of the direction of American foreign policy featuring James Hoagland, Robert Ellsworth, Robert Merry, and Grover Norquist.
The New Great Power Dynamics
[youtube https://youtu.be/Nyu4xijrP-E] May 2010: A discussion of the emerging global power structure and the future of American foreign policy featuring Brent Scowcroft, Richard Solomon, H.E. Mauro, Richard Burt, and Dimitri Simes.
Jon Kyl Discusses New Start Treaty
[youtube https://youtu.be/oicp6wIjN5s] May 2010: Arizona Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) discusses the future of American foreign policy.
Camelot And Sacred Cow–Tipping
Whatever his obvious faults and flaws, it is somewhat understandable that Richard Nixon would ruminate about how Jack Kennedy got away with a lot during his assassination-shortened presidency. And there is no doubt that the 37th President of the United States saw all...
Kent State, 40 Years Later
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of one of the Nixon era’s most tragic events, when four students were killed by Ohio National Guard gunfire at the campus of Kent State University during an antiwar demonstration. The shootings were followed by a nationwide student...
A Historian’s Responsibility
Recently the New Yorker came out with allegations that Stephen Ambrose (famed WWII and Nixon Biographer) exaggerated his contact with Dwight Eisenhower, General of the Army and 34th President of the United States. {See: Raymer, Richard, “Channeling Ike,” The New...