Nixon Today
Richard Nixon and Hispanic Heritage
President Nixon with Martin Castillo, Chairman of the Interagency Community for Mexican American Affairs--as it was called in early 1969--Hank Queveda, its Executive Director, and Uraldo Palmares. President Nixon with members of the Advisory Council of the Cabinet...
Managing as President: Nixon Creates the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Managing the Presidency: Nixon Creates the Office of Management and BudgetNixon Legacy ForumDrexel University, LeBow College of BusinessSeptember 11, 2014 Participants included former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neill, who also served as assistant director of OMB...
9.8.73 – Remarks About the Nation’s Energy Policy
President Nixon holds a meeting in the White House Cabinet Room with several senior advisors to discuss energy on September 8, 1973. Attendees at the meeting included John A. Love, Roy Ash, Charles DiBona, Bryce Harlow, Deane Hinton, Henry Kissinger, Melvin Laird,...
RN and Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr. was master of ceremonies for the entertainment portion of the Young Voters Rally at the Miami Marine Stadium. (Photo: UPI) 42 years ago today, without referring to notes, President Nixon spoke to a crowd of young voters at a rally in Miami, Florida on...
The Challenge of Peace: President Nixon’s New Economic Policy
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4uRvkAPhA] The Challenge of a Peacetime Economy "The time has come for a new economic policy," insisted President Nixon in an address to the nation on August 15 1971. "It targets unemployment, inflation, and international...
Michelle Obama Follows in Pat Nixon’s Footsteps
Former members of the Nixon White House staff discuss First Lady Pat Nixon's role on the 1972 trip to the People's Republic of China. By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. As Michelle Obama makes her well-publicized...
Recognizing First Lady Nixon’s Accomplishments on Her 102nd Birthday
By Will Swift, author of PAT AND DICK: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage. In celebration of what would have been First Lady Pat Nixon's 102nd birthday, let us remember some of her remarkable accomplishments as First Lady. - She was the most traveled first...
Nixon and Connally
The Nixons and Connallys at the Connally ranch in August 1972. This Tuesday marks the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s appointment of John Connally as the United States’ sixty-first Secretary of the Treasury and the early stages of what, at least at the time and to...
Nicholas Griffin’s New Book “Ping-Pong Diplomacy”
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
Richard Nixon and the Creation of the Modern Presidency
Richard Nixon and the Creation of the Modern PresidencyNixon Legacy ForumFranklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, PAJanuary 29, 2014 An on-stage discussion featuring Andrew M. Rouse, Executive Director of President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization...