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Efficient And Streamlined Government
Introduction The Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget were created on July 1, 1970. The result was that policy making on major domestic issues was consolidated into the Executive Office of the President. Henceforth, on domestic affairs—as had been the...
A Plan For Comprehensive Health Care Reform
“If the Government pays all the medical bills, then only the Government has a stake in holding down medical costs. This means that Government officials would have to approve hospital budgets and set fee schedules and take other steps that would eventually lead to the...
War On Cancer
President Nixon and the War on Cancer In January 2010, Dr. James Cavanaugh, one of RN’s principal advisers on health policy, spoke about the President’s early efforts at health care reform at the Nixon Library. His presentation was part of a panel of key White House...
The Rise Of The Environment
Although Richard Nixon's pre-presidential speeches and writings sometimes had passages referring to his love of the varied landscape of his native state of California, it still came as a surprise to many when, in his State of the Union address on January 22, 1970, he...
Energy Conservation
One aspect of Richard Nixon's presidency that still has far-reaching consequences today is his effort to deal with the issues created by America's consumption of steadily decreasing energy sources. At the start of the Administration, in 1969, this did not seem to be...
Forty Years On – Apollo XIII
The Kennedy Space Center is remembering the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission: The 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 is being celebrated on Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, At the time of the oxygen-tank explosion two days into the...
Docents Hold 16th Annual Geography Awards
The Nixon Library Docent Guild hosted their 16th annual geography award ceremony in the East Room at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Tuesday, honoring over 300 Orange County students who achieved perfect scores for accurately identifying the world's...
Hope For All C Students
The FBI file of Pulitzer-winning columnist and Nixon White House speechwriter, the late William Safire, has become public. The Associated Press’s Jessica Gresko describes the contents: Some of the earliest material dates from 1969, when investigators did a background...
The Unlikely Champion of Advancing Equality For Women
When I first came to Washington, D.C. to work in the White House of President Richard Nixon almost 40 years ago, you could count the number of women in the House and Senate on your two hands plus one toe. And, you wouldn’t have needed any additional digits for the...
Smells Like San Clemente Spirit
A few weeks after the 37th President boarded Air Force One for his last trip as President, David Bowie stood in a studio in Philadelphia and asked the country's young Americans, "do you remember your President Nixon?" Not long after that, Neil Young, recording...