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The Next Castro?
With the coming of a New Year we are again reminded that on January 1, 1959, now 51 years ago, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels rolled into Havana and established a Communist government in the Western Hemisphere. Castro is now enjoying his senior status as a thorn...
RN In ’70 — Launching The Decade of the Environment
I have become...convinced that the 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never. ---President Nixon's Signing Statement for the...
Nixon, Now More Than Ever
At the Huffington Post, Ray Brescia writes of the phrase "Now, More Than Ever," or NMTE: Interestingly, it was not George W. Bush who introduced the phrase to the political discourse. In fact, it was another Republican President, Richard Nixon, who used the NMTE...
37’s Resolutions for ’69 and ’70
RN 1970: A photograph by portraitist Merrett Smith. On the night of 6 February 1969 RN was preparing for an interview with TIME and LIFE columnist Hugh Sidey. He wrote three pages of thoughts and resolutions regarding the responsibilities and opportunities of a...
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Auld Acquaintance — Memories of 1969
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a brief (and highly selective) look back forty years ago --- to 1969. Many other important and memorable events occurred --- but their photos haven't yet reached the internet. On 20 January 1969, RN was inaugurated as the...
12.31.09
In A Life in Full, his biography of RN, Conrad Black surveys the situation at the end of the Nixon Administration's first year, on New Year's Eve 1969: Nixon had withdrawn another 50,000 men from Vietnam by year’s end, bringing U.S. force levels down 115,000 to...
RN’s Domestic Council Is Coming To Yorba Linda
The creation of the Domestic Council in 1970, roughly patterned after the National Security Council NSC), consolidated policy making on domestic issues into the Executive Office of the President. Coupled with the transformation of the former Bureau of the Budget into...
Taps For An American Hero
On Wednesday, Colonel Robert L. Howard, the most decorated American soldier living, passed away at the age of 70. He served five tours of duty in Vietnam and the extraordinary list of honors and unit citations he received in those years is itemized in his Wikipedia...
The First Nixon-Kennedy Debate
With the prospect of debates among British party leaders, an article in The Australian opines: Appearances do not only matter in television debating: they are, in some ways, the only things that matter. The first TV debate in 1960 pitted a sweaty, unshaven Richard...