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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...
Nixon and de Gaulle
President Nixon and General de Gaulle in Paris, 1969. By Chris Barber Like many who had yet to make the acquaintance of Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, Richard Nixon initially developed a particular bias against the hauteur man of France. After all, to know de...
Richard Nixon and Post-Yeltsin Russia
Nixon and Boris Yeltsin in Moscow 1991 Following Richard Nixon’s funeral service in 1994, Time Magazine ran the 37th President’s photo on the cover, for a record forty-eighth time, under the headline: “His parting advice to Bill Clinton: America Must Lead.” When it...
RN at Chequers: The Queen of England’s First Visit
RN, PN, Prime Minister Heath, and Queen Elizabeth II gather for a photo in front of Chequers By Chris Barber On President Nixon’s second state visit to Europe, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom hosted him, as is customary at Chequers, for discussions on...
Why Europe was President Nixon’s First Foreign Trip
By Chris Barber Having witnessed the necessity of U.S. support for post-war Western Europe under the Marshall Plan as a Congressman, Richard Nixon the President viewed his first foreign trip to Europe as priority above all else. On February 6, 1969, President Nixon...