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Nixon, the Courts, and the VRA
On June 25, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act after a 5-4 vote in the case of Shelby County v. Holder. Section 4b provided the formula to determine which states and local governments needed approval from the...
Twitter-esque Responses; Circa 1971
July 15th marks the 42nd anniversary of one of the most jaw-dropping moments of Richard Nixon’s presidency: the announcement of his trip to China. The Nixon administration had been secretly preparing for closer relations with the second-most-powerful Communist nation...
Curtis W. Tarr And The Draft “Lottery”
Late this week, word reached the news media of the death on June 21 of Curtis W. Tarr at his home in Walnut Creek, California. The majority of Mr. Tarr's career before his retirement was spent in the groves of academia; he was president of Lawrence University in...
Town Car Diplomacy – 40 Years Ago
This week marks 40 years since the memorable visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the United States. At the invitation of President Nixon, Brezhnev's trip was his first to the U.S. and their second summit in a...
Cartoonist Jack Ohman On Ed Nixon And David Eisenhower
Jack Ohman, as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in 1980, earned the distinction of being the youngest American cartoonist to have his work nationally syndicated. Upon graduating, he was hired at once by the Columbus Dispatch, and after...
Coverage Of The Nixon Library’s Dinner For America’s Vietnam POWs
Through this weekend, C-SPAN will periodically be broadcasting President Nixon's toast to the American POWs of the Vietnam War, at the dinner held on May 24, 1973 to celebrate their return home - to this day, the largest dinner of any kind at the White House. The...
In China With Christopher Nixon Cox
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the ten-day visit of President Nixon's grandson Christopher Nixon Cox, heading a party of forty visitors, to the People's Republic of China. The group, traveling under the auspices of the Richard Nixon Foundation, included former...
Creating the Shanghai Communiqué
President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger with Premier Chou En-lai meeting on the Shanghai Communiqué. The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, more commonly referred to as the Shanghai Communiqué, is one of the most important...
Cold War Game Change
President Nixon's China game brought Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to the negotiating table in May 1972. Since the rise of the Iron Curtain after World War II, the US-Soviet relationship was based on a balance of power. That is, both sides tried to ensure the other...
A Consequential Toast
President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toast at the Great Hall of the People. In his toast at the Welcome Banquet on February 21st, 1972 in the Great Hall of the People, President Nixon laid out the potential that trip held for the future of the US-Chinese...