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Nixoncare v. Obamacare
Increased federal healthcare costs and healthcare costs as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are tearing apart the monetary fabric of this nation. One thing is certain: the inflationary nature of healthcare costs is exceedingly unsustainable, for both the...
The War Powers Act: 40 Years of Constitutional Debate
40 years ago today, President Nixon used his presidential veto powers and controversially stood firm against the War Powers Act introduced and passed by a Democratically controlled Congress in 1973. While President Nixon was working diligently towards securing...
White House Communications Agency Reunites at the Nixon Library
Members of the White House Communications Agency-audio visual branch who supported President Nixon held a reunion at the Nixon Library on Saturday, October 19. The group toured the museum galleries and archives area and had lunch in the East Room. The White House...
Ben Stein Talks RN’s Vision for Healthcare
Actor Ben Stein, who was once a young speech writer in the Nixon White House, spoke with Yahoo! Finance today about President Nixon's vision for healthcare in the United States. Click here to watch the clip.
Witness of the Yom Kippur War: A Conversation with Jeffrey Donfeld
This week Nixonfoundation.org spoke with Jeffrey Donfeld, a former member of the Nixon White House staff who was on the ground in Israel when the Yom Kippur War broke out 40 years ago in October 1973. Mr. Donfeld joined the White House as Staff Assistant to the...
President Nixon And The “Multipolar” Mideast Strategy
The resolution this week of the budget crisis - at least for the rest of the year - has resulted in many Americans thinking once again about the problems of the Middle East. Violence continues unabated in Syria, and just yesterday, in protest of what it perceived as...
Kevin Spacey, Richard Nixon, and the Arts
Recently, Oscar winner and House of Cards star Kevin Spacey shared some surprisingly favorable words for Richard Nixon, shedding some light on the efforts of the President to extend federal support for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Spacey, a strong...
Finding Nixon in Arabia
The Obama administration recently announced that it will be freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Egyptian military on the condition that the Arab nation display credible progress toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department...
Monica Crowley Talks About Richard Nixon With Don Imus
Earlier this week Monica Crowley, the longtime contributor to Fox News who began her career as President Nixon's foreign-policy assistant from 1990 to his passing in 1994, appeared on Don Imus's radio show. As usual, the broadcasting legend made some scathing remarks...
Nixon and Moynihan: A Partnership Ahead of Partisanship
To plant the seeds of bureaucratic reform, President Nixon sought after advisors who were characterized by intellectual pugnacity and a challenger’s spirit. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the eventual head of the President’s Urban Affairs Counsel, was just the right man to...