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Was RN the Last Republican Moderate?
Former Nixon speechwriter Lee Huebner argues yes, during a panel discussion about GOP moderates at the Bipartisan Policy Center: Perhaps necessarily—since there aren’t any moderate Republicans left in Congress—the discussion was grounded in the past. Huebner evoked...
Watergate’s Mythbusters
“MythBusters,” one of the more popular shows on the Discovery Channel, spends lots of time figuratively – and occasionally literally – exploding such myths as “Is it easy to shoot fish in a barrel?,” “Can an old hammer actually explode?,” and “Is water bulletproof?”...
Remembering Ping-Pong In College Park
Considerable attention was given two months ago to the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon's visit to China, but this month marked four decades since an event which, though it seems little-remembered now, was also a landmark in its way. During the 1971 tour that...
Can Romney Win With A Page From Nixon’s ’72 Playbook?
In the spring of 1972, long before his three campaigns for the White House, Pat Buchanan was the 33-year-old special assistant in the Nixon White House who had coined the term "silent majority" in the 1968 campaign and now was pondering how his boss could reach that...
Former DoD Official: Keep Nixon’s Army
In the Washington Post, Washington lawyer and former DoD consultant Elliot Feldman argues for the permanence of the all-volunteer force: The answer does not lie in larger forces that we cannot afford nor in a coercive system that is inherently unfair. The U.S....
John Stossel Comes to Nixon Library
Fox Business host John Stossel discussed his new book, No, They Cant: Why Government Fails - But Individuals Succeed last Monday at the Nixon Library: Jonathan Movroydis is the Director of Communications at the Richard Nixon Foundation.
Waging Peace: Nixon and the Geopolitics of the Middle East
Waging Peace: Nixon and the Geopolitics of the Middle EastNixon Legacy ForumNational Archives Research CenterApril 23, 2012 “Waging Peace: Nixon and the Geopolitics of the Middle East'' features five distinguished panelists with broad careers in diplomacy and politics...
Harry Shearer’s “Nixon’s The One” To Air April 26
Late last year I wrote about the news that Harry Shearer, veteran comedian and voice actor best known for his multitude of parts on The Simpsons, had contracted with the Sky Arts channel in the UK to do a special, Nixon's The One, partly based on the 1971-73 White...
Johnny Ramone’s Second Favorite Republican
The late John Cummings, better known by his nom de rock'n'roll of Johnny Ramone, was one of the most important guitar players of the last half-century. His trademark buzzsaw approach to the strings was the instantly recognizable stylistic signature of famed punk-rock...
Changing Public Perceptions of China: Nixon to Obama
[youtube https://youtu.be/eYsXTcinaIQ] March 7, 2012: : Part of "The Week that Changed the World," a conference marking the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's trip to China. Featuring Jerrold Schecter, Jim Laurie, Marcus Brauchli, James Mann, and Melinda Liu....