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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]
President Richard Nixon’s 14 Addresses to the Nation on Vietnam
Achieving “Peace With Honor” – 1969 to 1973 Introduction The most pressing problem facing Richard Nixon when he assumed the presidency on January 20, 1969, was the war in Vietnam. When he took office, nearly 36,000 Americans had been killed in Vietnam. During the 1968...
Douglas Schoen on America in the Age of Trump
Author of "America in the Age of Trump: Opportunities and Oppositions in an Unsettled World" Fox News contributor and influential pollster Doug Schoen offers his unique assessment of the Trump presidency and the opportunities and challenges that face our nation....
Video: Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill at the Nixon Library
[youtube https://youtu.be/HDAg_kx2ue8] A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, "The Operator" ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to...
Key Quotations: The United States, China and Russia: Relations Between The World’s Great Powers
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 • Video Key Quotations “China remains enormously dependent on the United States...