Nixon Today
“It Was Nixon Who Gave Life To The Civil Rights Act”
The favorable reviews accorded to Will Swift's Pat And Dick since its publication this month show that, almost four decades after President Nixon left office, not only are historians and biographers viewing his career in a new and favorable light, but writers in the...
MLK & RN: Creating a More Just Society
A version of this story ran Martin Luther King Day 2013: VP Nixon with MLK in 1957 “Let me say how deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,” were the words of...
Young Richard Nixon’s Fullerton Home Remembered
The Fullerton home where Richard Nixon lived with his aunt Carrie Wildermuth while he attended Fullerton Union High School was commemorated on January 9, marking RN's 101st birthday. Former California State Assemblyman Chris Norby led the effort to get the 92-year old...
Dr. Will Swift on ‘Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
[youtube https://youtu.be/FGxslFyS07U] January 11, 2014: Author Dr. Will Swift discusses the marriage of President and First Lady Pat Nixon at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
40 Years Ago – RN Signs the Endangered Species Act
On December 28, 1973, RN pledged to protect the nation's endangered species from extinction. The move was part of his sweeping environmental agenda which included the National Environmental Protection Act and the creation of the EPA, the Clean Air and Clean Water...
Richard Nixon, Setting A Post-Presidential Example
Earlier this month, an article by Anneta Konstantinides at ABC News's site considered the question of what President Obama might do after he leaves office on January 20, 2017. The President recently joked that he might go to work for ESPN, but on a more serious...
RN and the Day of Infamy
RN answered the call for service following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946. On this day, 72 years ago, Pearl Harbor was attacked and bombed by an Imperial Japanese Navy. On the anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy,”...
President Nixon’s Promotion of Black Enterprise
The U.S. economy’s roots in the free market require the participation of businesses of all sizes in order to achieve its greatest potential. This means to reach optimum market potential, the economy needs have participation from all its citizens – especially its...
Why RN was Re-Elected in 1972
Documents from the National Archives detail how the Nixon administration approached the President’s re-election in 1972. The midterm elections of 1970 garnered minimal gains for the Republican Party and the prognosis of election year 1972 appeared pessimistic....
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...