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Len Colodny And Tom Shachtman Discuss “Forty Years’ War”
Recently Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman appeared at the World Affairs Council in Washington to talk about their new book focusing on the foreign policies of the Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush Administrations, The Forty Years' War. Above is C-SPAN's video of this...
The Effective Use Of RN’s Time: How One Time Problem Was Solved
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
Osborne: “Mission To China”
As we come upon the the thirty-eighth anniversary of RN's historic trip to China later this month, The New Republic has digged into their archives for John Osborne's report on the "week that changed the world."
Nixon, Obama, and Ohio
According to Hotline, Democrats are seeking to build an electoral college fortress in Ohio. An ODP [Ohio Democratic Party] document notes that the importance of the state to the Electoral College grows even more critical after this year's census: "Projections suggest...
“Only Nixon” Reviewed
The Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain has just published this review of James C. Humes and Dr. Jarvis Ryals's book Only Nixon, which recounts the President's historic China trip as seen from the perspective of the Chinese who helped arrange for RN's meetings with Zhou Enlai...
Salinger The Hero
It's now been just over a week since word came of the death at age ninety-one of J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher In The Rye and Franny And Zooey. A lot has been written since then, much of it focusing on the comparative seclusion in which he spent fifty-eigh...
The President’s Daily News Summary — Part III
Print media often referred to the Daily News Summary as the most exclusive newspaper in the world. It was a fair description because they were written to please just one person, RN himself. They began during the 1968 primaries by Pat Buchanan, who chose articles “the...
Jackie Gleason For RN
From the 1968 campaign:
The Great Conservationists
A Time Magazine story dated the first week of February 1969 illustrates how RN set the tone for his administration's environmental agenda very early on: After his embroilment in the Nixon Administration's only serious appointment hassle, Walter Hickel was doubly...
The Domestic Council On Demand
The first of the Richard Nixon Legacy Forums, Domestic Policy Initiatives of the Nixon Years: Bringing Innovation and Progress to the American People is now available for viewers -- free -- on demand: