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Expanding Détente Into International Economics
“Détente” typically arouses thoughts of summits and treaties concerning the vast arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the Cold War superpowers. However, the so-called cooling off period between the United States and the Soviet Union, led by President Nixon, encompassed...
Nixon Rides BART
On September 27, 1972, only a few days after the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system officially opened, President Nixon visited the Bay Area to marvel at the future of transportation. As icing on the cake, President Nixon also arrived with a $38.1 million gift in the...
How ‘Checkers’ Changed the Game of Television
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket...
The Task of Diplomacy
At the beginning of September, the United States and Russia announced a groundbreaking ceasefire in Syria. Just weeks later, tensions between the two countries are rising at an alarming rate as diplomats on both sides attempt to revive a ceasefire on life support. The...
The Rise and Fall of the Shah
“When we think of where Iran is, its place in history, going back 2,500 years, its place geographically, where it is the bridge between Europe and Asia, where it is the opening ot the Indian Ocean and South Asia, and also to the Mideast, when we thinkg also of the...
Meeting the Needs of the ‘Seventies
The U.S. role in international development assistance reflects the vision we have of ourselves as a society and our hope for a peaceful world. —President Nixon, Special Message to Congress On September 15, 1970, President Nixon delivered a special message to the...
A Jazz Legend in the Soviet Union
Amidst the preparations for President Nixon’s upcoming visit to Moscow, another American cultural icon toured the Soviet Union in the fall of 1971. Traveling to five different Soviet cities in a month’s time, Jazz legend Duke Ellington put on twenty-two performances...
President Nixon: Champion for Native Americans
President Nixon made several great strides in federal Indian policy, including: Returning the sacred Blue Lake to the people of Taos Pueblo in 1970. Enacting the Menominee Restoration Act, restoring the recognition of the previously terminated tribe in 1973. Signing...
President Nixon and Non-Proliferation
With the number of nuclear weapon states steadily rising, and tensions between the Cold War superpowers continuing to intensify, world leaders on both sides of the Iron Curtain recognized that “the proliferation of nuclear weapons would seriously enhance the danger of...
Surfer In Chief
In the debut of Twenty, a magazine for those curious about the sport of surfing, contributor Alex Roth writes of President Nixon's integral role in turning a small coastal section of Camp Pendleton into one of the top surf spots on the planet. Read the full piece...