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President Nixon meets with members of the President's Council on Youth Opportunity. On this day in 1971, President Nixon released a statement about summer job and recreation opportunities for youth. The statement reiterated the Nixon administration's goal in expanding...

President and Mrs. Nixon greet President Rafael Caldera of Venezuela on June 2, 1970. 44 years ago today, President Nixon honored the President of Venezuela's state visit to the United States with full military honors, a state dinner, and favorable policy initiatives....

By Robert Nedelkoff As Chris Barber points out in this blog , the current season of AMC's long running series Mad Men has been exploring the life of adman Don Draper and his contemporaries during the first months of the Nixon Administration. But longtime fans of the...

President Nixon observes the West Point Military Academy Corp of Cadets drill on May 29, 1971. 43 years ago today on May 29, 1971, President Nixon delivered the commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Grasping at the...

"Energy Czar" William Simon, as "Energy Czar," discussing an energy conference with President Nixon on 9 February 1974. On 8 May 1974, William Simon was sworn in as the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury after serving in the Nixon Administration as Deputy Secretary of the...

President Nixon delivers his first inaugural address on January 20, 1969. By Chris Barber Richard Nixon made another telling appearance on one of television’s most compelling dramas of the last ten years. Mad Men, a television series set in the 1960s that centers its...

President Richard Nixon presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Duke Ellington on the music legend's 70th Birthday, April 29, 1969. By Chris Barber A close look at President Nixon will reveal a man who grew up with a great sense of admiration for music. An avid...

Forty years ago today, President Nixon spoke quite candidly at the Mississippi Economic Council, treating those gathered not only to an economic lesson but allowing them -- and those listening on television and radio -- to grasp his strategic vision of a new set of...

Photo Courtesy of bigshootout.com By Chris Barber In honor of the "The Game of the Century,” the famed 1969 Texas-Arkansas battle for College football's number 1, filmmaker Mike Looney and writer George Francisco recently produced a documentary entitled The Big...

Richard Nixon meeting with the 1989 Phillies Coaching Staff at Veteran’s Stadium.   In a 1990 interview on the Today Show, Bryant Gumbel asked President Nixon, “If you hadn’t have gone into politics what would you have done?” President Nixon responded, with a smile:...