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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...
Goodbye To All That
The Supreme Court announced this morning that visitors will no longer access the building by ascending the 44 marble steps steps and passing under the words “Equal Justice Under Law” to enter the great central hall through the massive bronze doors depicting the...
Henry Kissinger Conversation with Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland
[youtube https://youtu.be/q3kCEx1AxdE] May 2010: Henry Kissinger talks with Washington Post writer Jim Hoagland about international affairs and President Nixon's legacy.
What Would Buckley Think About The Tea Party?
Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation, author of the standard biography of Barry Goldwater (and of a new book about William F. Buckley Jr.) argues that Buckley would have endorsed it: Some of you may be saying, “But wait, wasn’t Bill Buckley an elitist, the ultimate...