Nixon Today
Carter Library Chief Praises RN’s Energy Policy
[youtube https://youtu.be/pdf6ZN9X-ds] July 2013: President Nixon raised the bar on energy policy and led the country towards greater independence from foreign sources, said Jay Hakes, the Director of the Carter Presidential Library in a talk at the Nixon Library.
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...
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...
Would the Sunnylands Summit be Happening had it not been for RN?
RN and PN with Walter and Leonore Annenberg at La Casa Pacifica in 1969. No it would not, on two counts; first, that it was RN’s diplomatic appointment of Annenberg that began his foreign service and second that it was RN who, of course, opened the U.S. and western...
Pat Nixon’s 101st
Today, March 16, would have been Pat Nixon's 101st birthday....but since her Irish-American father Bill Ryan always liked to think of her as his "Saint Patrick's babe born in the morn," she grew up celebrating her birthday on the 17th, and always preferred to put a...
Taki And Conrad Black On Nixon’s 100th
Although two months have passed since the centennial of President Nixon's birth, it is only in the last week that two writers of eminence have written about it. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the Greek shipping heir, essayist, and bon vivant, and Conrad Black (also known as...
Rethinking Nixon at Duke: A Student Speaks Up
RN pictured with the Duke Law School class of 1937. Mousa Alshanteer, a freshman at Duke University, writes that his school should have more appreciation for its most successful alumnus: Richard Nixon once described “the great American legend as to how presidential...
41 Years Ago – The Week that Changed the World
In the new Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit Patriot. President. Peacemaker at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, two bronze statues of Richard Nixon and Chou en-Lai compliment a mural of Air Force One after it touched down in Peking on February 21,1972. The...
A Philippine Memory Of The China Trip
Over at the website of the Philippine Star, columnist Carmen N. Pedrosa reminds her countrymen that China is the pre-eminent economic presence in today's Pacific Rim, and that American politicians, rather than blaming the PRC for all America's financial and social...
Memories of George McGovern
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation's capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His funeral in...