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My Summer with the Nixon Foundation
As the final few days of the school year approached and the prospect of a jobless summer became a fast approaching reality, I worried what exactly the next three months would have in store. Luckily, a posting on Panther Connect, Chapman University’s online job and...
Conrad Black On “Our Nixon”
A few days ago in his National Review column, Conrad Black, (or Lord Black of Crossharbour, to use his British title), the former publisher of the London Telegraph and Chicago Sun-Times and author of the acclaimed biography Richard M. Nixon: A Life In Full, gave his...
Notes on Navigating Russian Diplomacy, The Nixon Diplomatic Playbook
By Marshall Garvey Twenty two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, relations between the Obama Administration and Russia have regressed. Aside from hot-button issues like asylum for NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Russia’s...
On Matters of Race, President Nixon’s Actions Spoke Louder Than Words
It took only two misconstrued words buried in a nine page memo to President Nixon to provide the fuel for the fires of the administration’s harshest critics regarding civil rights and minorities. The memo, sent on January 16, 1970 by Daniel P. Moynihan, Counselor to...
Continuing Student Opportunities at the Nixon Foundation
“When schools close for summer, many students will seek summer employment. Some will need the earnings to continue their education or to help out at home.” President Nixon, Memorandum About the Federal Summer Employment Program for Youth, March 30, 1971 In today’s job...
Mao and Nixon: A Colossal Moment in History
From left to right: Premier Zhou En-Lai, translator Tang Wensheng, Chairman Mao, President Nixon, and Henry Kissinger. (Not shown: National Security Advisor Winston Lord and Chinese Deputy Chief of Protocol Wang Hai-Jung.) One of the most incredible moments in the...
A Look at the TV Ratings for ‘Our Nixon’
This aide to Mr. Nixon would send memos to White House staff regarding audience ratings of the President’s television appearances. Here is the most recent TV rating I have come across. CNN’s “Our Nixon,” broadcast on August 1, 2013 drew 645,000 total viewers in...
Early Groundwork for Entitlement Reforms
By Marshall Garvey As President Obama and congressional Republicans debate how to handle entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, many Americans worry they'll ultimately be unable to come to a bipartisan consensus. In 1969, during his first year in...
Drafting a Presidential Statement on School Desegregation
On March 24, 1970, President Nixon released an extensive statement concerning the administration’s stance on ending school segregation in the South. While the number of African American children that were enrolled in desegregated school systems had increased...
The Long Battle for the ERA and Constitutional Equality
In 1921, Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for constitutional gender equality. The original version read: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction....