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Nixon Library Collecting Condolences for Graham Family
Nixon Library Collecting Condolences for Graham Family February 21, 2018 The Richard Nixon Foundation invites the public to visit the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda starting today to pay tribute Rev. Billy Graham. The Nixon Foundation...
Remembering Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Jon Huntsman and his family with President Nixon in the Oval Office, 1970. Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower remember Jon Huntsman Jon Huntsman Sr., a philanthropist and businessman who served as special assistant and staff secretary to President Nixon, died...
Native American Rights – Part I
Two initial panel discussions exploring President Nixon’s leadership in restoring self-determination for Native Americans (May 23, 2012, University of Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum, Oklahoma) Title: Restoring Rights for Native Americans Panel Moderator: Reid Chambers,...
Transcript: Waking Up to the China Challenge: Are the U.S. and China Destined for War?
Waking Up to the China Challenge: Are the U.S. and China Destined for War? Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum November 17, 2017 Synopsis • Video Participants Dr. Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of Harvard Kennedy...
55 Years Ago — “The Last Press Conference”
6 November 1962: Vice President Nixon gives his concession following his loss to Edmund "Pat" Brown in the 1962 California Gubernatorial race. He admonished the press in attendance for their disproportionate negative coverage of his campaign, and that this was his...
Middle East 1973: Setting the Stage for Diplomacy
By Jason Schwartz After several weeks of fighting in October 1973 between Israel and the adjacent Arab nations, the Yom Kippur War had reached conditions which threatened further escalation. Each side had respectively been resupplied by their ideological...
Middle East 1973: Calculating a Careful Response
President Nixon arrives in Israel on June 16, 1974. By Jason Schwartz Ripe with political and ideological tension, outstanding disputes between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations once again came to blows on 6 October 1973. The expansion of Israeli controlled...
Rallying the Silent Majority and Articulating a Foreign Policy Vision
President Nixon with chief-of-staff H.R. Haldeman the day after the president's November 3, 1969 speech on the Vietnam War. The Oval Office desk was stacked with hundreds of telegrams and letters of support from the general public. By Jason Schwartz The Vietnam War...
Transcript: The U.S., China, and the Geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula
Endgame in Pyongyang: The U.S., China, and the Geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum October 25, 2017 Program Synopsis • Video Participants Dr. Bruce W. Bennett is a senior international/defense researcher at the RAND...
Video: The United States, China and Russia: Relations Between The World’s Great Powers
[youtube https://youtu.be/C-Hku1Lilu8] The United States, China and Russia: Relations Between the World’s Great Powers in the Age of Trump July 27, 2017 Richard Nixon Presidential Library Program Synopsis • Program Transcript • Key Quotes Dr. Henry Kissinger said...