Nixon Today
President Nixon At The Lincoln Memorial
During the past week there were countless articles, video clips, and broadcasts marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom - the event on the Mall involving up to 300,000 people gathered to promote civil and economic rights, which...
Growth and the Minority Business Enterprise
By Marshall Garvey Among President Nixon’s many underrated accomplishments, perhaps his greatest is his substantial legacy in civil rights. While the movement’s defining laws, The Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965), were signed by President Lyndon...
From the Archives: RN Pushed for Women’s Equality
Newly released documents detail how President Nixon made equality for women a top priority in his administration. The materials, among the 1,400 pages of other textual material from the National Archives, shed light on his vision and drive to bring women into...
A Segregationist’s Change of Heart and Apology
A few months after the relatively quiet and peaceful opening of hundreds of newly integrated school districts across the South in the Fall of 1970, a unique letter reached President Nixon’s desk. The two page letter came from Ralph Savarese, a Methodist preacher in...
President Nixon’s Approach to Education and Race
Over the many books he authored, President Nixon would occasionally refer to the philosophies of literary giants such as Fyodor Dostoevsky or Friedrich Nietzsche. Exposed to these great authors in college, President Nixon understood the value the humanities had in his...
Asking ‘The Question” on Women in Government
On February 6, 1969, the East Room was packed with male reporters and just a few female reporters. The press briefing consisted of questions surrounding US-European relations and what President Nixon hoped to achieve in his upcoming trip to Brussels, Paris and...
Nixon, Architect of the Modern Presidency
By Marshall Garvey When one looks at how the American presidency functions today, it seems like an overwhelming task. Aside from having to be ready to handle crises and address a complex array of entrenched issues, the president also has to steer an enormous...
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...
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...
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...