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The Herter Committee: Forging RN’s Foreign Policy
RN and members of the Herter Committee stand in front of rice fields in northern Italy. By Chris Barber On Monday, July 30, 1947, then Congressman Richard Nixon was chosen, to his pleased astonishment, by Speaker Joe Martin to be one of nineteen members representing a...
Robert Wilkie and Roger Stone: What Would Nixon Do?
President Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev have an informal conversation. Robert Wilkie of Human Events asks the question many Nixon supporters have asked in light of America's current foreign policy foibles: Where is Dick Nixon when you need him? During the...
My Gift to the President
The author (right) presents a scrapbook in support of President Nixon on April 2, 1974. White House staffer, Robert Genader (left) accepted the gift on behalf of President Nixon. By Bob Bostock Forty years ago today I visited the White House for the first time. I...
Peaceful Competition: Vice President Nixon’s Mission to Moscow
Vice President Nixon holds a Russian child while visiting the Soviet Union in 1959. In a historiographical essay published in A Companion to Richard M. Nixon, historian Irwin F. Gellman noted, few historians “have published anything on the genesis of Nixon’s evolution...
RN’s Plan for Higher Education
President Nixon and Secretary of H.E.W Robert Finch visit Washington Technical Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. By Chris Barber By the time Richard Nixon became President, America’s higher education system began to suffer under its own weight. A growing identity crisis...
Michelle Obama Follows in Pat Nixon’s Footsteps
Former members of the Nixon White House staff discuss First Lady Pat Nixon's role on the 1972 trip to the People's Republic of China. By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. As Michelle Obama makes her well-publicized...
Richard Nixon’s Foreign Policy Reading List
A replica of President Nixon's New Jersey office at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. What did President Nixon read? That is a question often asked by school children participating in school tours at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, and for...
Recognizing First Lady Nixon’s Accomplishments on Her 102nd Birthday
By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. In celebration of what would have been First Lady Pat Nixon's 102nd birthday, let us remember some of her remarkable accomplishments as First Lady. - She was the most traveled first...
If Nixon Could Advise Obama on the Ukrainian Crisis
Moscow Summit May 1972 The Ukrainian Crisis has evoked strong responses from across the American political spectrum. There are cries for President Obama to take unilateral action and impose sanctions against Putin while others urge the President to avoid overreacting...
43 Years Ago Today: RN Addresses Newly Commissioned Naval Officers
President Nixon addresses the graduates of the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, March 12, 1971. By Chris Barber On this day 43 years ago, President Nixon stood before the 1971 graduating class of officers at the Naval Officer Candidate School...