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In 2000, James Rosen of Fox News interviewed Gen. Alexander Haig for his biography of John Mitchell. That book, The Strong Man, was published eight years later. But it turns out that, in the course of the three-hour conversation, the General talked of many other...

In the immediate aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before the nation accepting the total blame for what had happened. He referred to an old saying about victory having a thousand fathers, but defeat being an orphan, and...

Together with retired Air Force General Charles F. Boyd, RN’s daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with the Nixon Center’s annual Distinguished Service Award in Washington on Wednesday, February 24. The program also included remarks...

At Time's site today, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger writes about Gen. Alexander Haig's passing: Societies become rich through ingenuity and hard work. But they become great because they produce men and women who lift them beyond the moment. Alexander Haig, who served his...

As many of TNN's readers know, Diane Sawyer, the veteran newswoman who now anchors ABC's World News Tonight, spent the 1970s working in Richard Nixon's White House, then, after his resignation from the Presidency, in San Clemente as his assistant for his Memoirs. In...

Steve Chapman writes of the president's proposal to control health insurance premiums: Barack Obama has often modeled his policies on Franklin Roosevelt. Lately, though, he's been coming across more as Richard Nixon Lite. In 1971, fed up with the steady rise of wages...

Scholar and retired soldier, Andrew Bacevich, wants U.S. leaders to be bold and abandon designs for redefining NATO's mission: When Gen. Stanley McChrystal's famous assessment of the situation in Afghanistan leaked to the media last year, most observers focused on his...

Looking to secure a veneer of bipartisanship for their health care plans, Democrats have reached into the grave, exhuming the alleged endorsement of Richard Nixon. They claim that the health care legislation he proposed in 1971 and 1974 is a model for their own...

Update (2/22/2010, 7:28am PST): The Effective Use of the President's Time is now available on demand: The second Nixon Legacy forum, The Effective Use of the President's Time is now streaming live on C-SPAN.org.Watch as four West Wing staff discuss how they scheduled,...

President Obama issued a Statement from the White House on the death of General Haig: Today we mourn the loss of Alexander Haig, a great American who served our country with distinction.  General Haig exemplified our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who...