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RN’s Admiration for Abraham Lincoln
By Chris Barber A portrait of President Nixon in the Oval Office. A bust of President Lincoln sets the background. To commemorate the 205th birthday of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, The New Nixon takes a look at the great figure and savior of the Union through...
Nixon and Connally
The Nixons and Connallys at the Connally ranch in August 1972. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s appointment of John Connally as the United States’ sixty-first Secretary of the Treasury and the early stages of what, at least at the time and to...
It Was 50 Years Ago Today Tricia And Julie Saw The Beatles Play
Sunday, February 9, marks the 50th anniversary of the evening - also on a Sunday - when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collectively known as The Beatles, stepped onto the stage of CBS TV's Ed Sullivan Show and, in less than an hour,...
45 Years Ago Today – RN Meets with Roy Wilkins of the NAACP
RN with Roy Wilkins speaking to the press in the Fish Room of the White House. On February 7, 1969, RN met with the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Roy Wilkins. Wilkins, known as the senior statesman of the...
43 Years Ago, RN’s Statement on Executive Reorganization in 1971
As Chairman of the Ash Council, Roy L. Ash helped President Nixon see through his goal of executive reorganization. On February 6, 1971, President Nixon released a statement to the press regarding the public dissemination of Ash Council presidential memoranda on the...
King Hussein of Jordan Visits the White House 41 Years Ago
RN and PN with King and Queen consort of Jordan, Hussein bin Talal and Alia al-Hussein, as they take their formal photo in front of the White House Grand Staircase before attending the State Dinner. The diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Kingdom...
Nicholas Griffin’s New Book “Ping-Pong Diplomacy”
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
RN and a Constitutionalist Judiciary
RN congratulating Warren E. Burger on his official appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court By Chris Barber In the course of a single term, the President will make hundreds if not thousands of appointments to various government positions. Of those...
1974 State of the Union Address, 40 years
President Nixon addressing Congress with his State of the Union Message on January 30, 1974 He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and...
To Stabilize and Reform: Why America Matters to the Middle East and Beyond
RN lends a hand to President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. Richard Nixon began his Foreign Affairs journal entry, "Asia After Vietnam," with the sentiment that Vietnam had so long dominated the American psyche that it distorted its picture of the entirety of Asia. The same...