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President Nixon On Establishing the EPA and NOAA
President Nixon and others boating on Jackson Lake at the Grand Tetons National Park near Moran, Wyoming. On this day in 1970, President Nixon relayed a comprehensive message to the Congress of the United States regarding the proposed reorganization plans to establish...
“Eureka”
Henry Kissinger meeting Chou Enlai for the first time, July 9 1971. After two years of backchannel exchanges and subtle signals of interest, Premier Chou Enlai of the People's Republic of China on June 2 1971 delivered, in the words of National Security Council head...
Pat Buchanan – Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ and a Liberal Big Lie
Pat Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author and former staff assistant to Nixon, writes for Townhall about the stigma associated with President Nixon and his so-called "Southern strategy," having allegedly used racial politics to steal the South from the Democrats...
President Nixon’s Address to the Soviet People – 7.2.1974
Muscovites watch President Nixon's address to the Russian people on a set in a state television store. 40 years ago today, President Nixon made his second television and radio address to the people of the Soviet Union. It was the second such time RN was given the...
“Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote”
President Nixon signs the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. On April 27, 1970 President Nixon sent a letter to Congress supporting a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age. At the time, the Senate had attached to the bill modifying and...
Summit III
President Nixon greets an enthusiastic Russian crowd in Moscow's Red Square. 40 years ago this week, President Nixon landed at Vnukovo II Airport in Moscow, U.S.S.R., opening an official visit to the Soviet Union. He came prepared to continue detente talks and to...
#SupremeCourt: Time, Inc. v. Hill
Richard Nixon's opening arguments for the Supreme Court case TIME, Inc. v. Hill, April 27, 1966. In light of the Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday that requires police to obtain a warrant before searching mobile devices seized when arresting a suspect,...
Commemorating the Birthplace of Hannah Milhous Nixon
Congressman Richard Nixon with his mother, Hannah Milhous Nixon, 1946. Many who knew Hannah Milhous Nixon in Whittier referred to her as a "Quaker saint." She was peaceful and displayed a strength of lovingness that shown through her heart and the quality of her...
6.23.1969-President Nixon Swears in Warren E. Burger as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
President Nixon and Judge Warren E. Burger on the day of his nomination to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice. 45 years ago today, President Nixon made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. It was also his most important appointment during his presidency because...
#FamiliesSucceed: President Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan
President Nixon addresses the nation on his plan for welfare reform: the Family Assistance Plan. On August 8, 1969, President Nixon addressed the nation on his administration's domestic program proposals. He unveiled a series of domestic policies aimed at combating...