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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...
Asia After Viet Nam – Fifty Years On
By Conrad Black It is difficult now to resurrect how revolutionary and improbable it seemed fifty years ago to envision a reconstructed normal relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. In 1967 the Cultural Revolution was...
After Viet Nam: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the Search for a Strategy to End the Vietnam War
By Niall Ferguson On December 10, 1967, Clare Boothe Luce decided to bring together Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon at a pre-Christmas cocktail party in her elegant apartment at 933 Fifth Avenue. It was the first meeting between the two men who, more...
Celebration Services for Herbert W. Kalmbach Held Sunday, October 15
Photo: Kalmbach and Secretary Rumsfeld at the Nixon Library in 2010. Celebration Services for Herbert W. Kalmbach Held Sunday, October 15 More than 200 family and friends of Herbert Kalmbach, President Nixon’s personal attorney and longtime close friend and advisor,...
Parallel Lives: Richard Nixon and George Allen in Washington
November 23, 1971. President Nixon with Redskins Coach George Allen, Redskins football players and the coaching staff. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library) By Charles Cauffman Football season has come once again. With millions of viewers tuning in to Sunday and Monday...
Mark Bowden, Author of “Hue 1968”
[youtube https://youtu.be/WJX9QZOKOs4] Author of "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam" The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller "Black Hawk Down," "Hue 1968" is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive...
Sven Kraemer, Author of “Inside the Cold War”
Author of "Inside the Cold War from Marx to Reagan," an unprecedented new guide to the roots, history, strategies and key official documents of the Cold War. [youtube https://youtu.be/wUKEZXdYEWg]