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‘Checkers’ at 61
September 23 marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential...
Energy Consciousness Awakens During Nixon Presidency
“We passed a milestone of national awareness when we recognized for the first time that the bounty of energy resources we had taken for granted for so long was not as limitless as we had once thought.” RN, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Economic powers such as Germany...
Treating the Demand Side of the Drug War
In April, the Office of National Drug Control Policy requested a $25.4 billion budget for 2014. The total budget would be divided as such: $10.7 billion allocated to prevention and treatment, $9.6 billion for domestic law enforcement, $3.7 billion for interdiction,...
Putin’s Plea… for a Nixonian President
On September 11, Vladimir Putin exercised a freedom protected by the United States that is not widely available in his country, freedom of the press. In what spread across the internet like wild fire, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed piece, published by the...
Welfare Reform Begins with Nixon Administration
“Our States and cities find themselves sinking in a welfare quagmire, as caseloads increase, as costs escalate, and as the welfare system stagnates enterprise and perpetuates dependency.” RN, Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs August 8, 1969 Despite...
Transportation Policy, Addressing the Urban Frontier
Transportation planning, especially in metropolitan areas such as greater Los Angeles, necessitates greater attention and priority of policy makers and community members. When congestion and stop-and-go traffic on highways become the norm of every working person’s...
Memories Of President Nixon’s Western White House
There are certain places around America which are always remembered as places where Presidents have gone to get a rest, for a while, from the pressure cooker that Washington can sometimes be....places that bear the personal stamp of a Chief Executive's personality in...
Diplomatic Balancing Act
By Marshall Garvey During the United States’ pacific campaign in World War II, some of the most intense fighting occurred on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The area, which also included the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands, became known as “The Keystone of the...
Facts Speak for Themselves: RN’s Legacy of Civil Rights
“The dramatic success of our Southern school desegregation problem is eloquently told by the statistics…As far as my administration’s overall record on civil rights is concerned, I believe we can point with justifiable pride to what was accomplished.”-RN, President...
Vision Needed to Avoid Hit and Run Approach in Syria
President Obama secured support for military action in Syria from the top House Republicans, Speaker Boehner, and Majority Leader Cantor, but to what end? The President has previously stated that he isn’t interested in regime change, so ousting Assad by the US...