Nixon Today
RN Ends the Draft: The Creation of the All-Volunteer Force
Ending The Draft: The Creation of an All-Volunteer Force January 19, 2012 The Foundation and National Archives hosted Nixon campaign and White House officials who worked with President Nixon to end the draft and create the modern, professional, and all-volunteer force...
Confronting America’s First Energy Crisis
[youtube https://youtu.be/6DWzoXCHT_M] October 19, 2011: On the 38th anniversary of America's first energy crisis caused by the 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo, three Nixon administration officials who formulated and executed the thirty-seventh President's energy policy...
72 Years Ago – RN Exposes Alger Hiss
As the summer of 1948 uneventfully passed through July and entered August, Congressmen and Senators eagerly awaited a much needed respite to escape the sweltering heat characteristic of a Washington summer. As they lightheartedly made calls to reserve flights and...
Efficient And Streamlined Government
Introduction The Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget were created on July 1, 1970. The result was that policy making on major domestic issues was consolidated into the Executive Office of the President. Henceforth, on domestic affairs—as had been the...
The Office Of The President
President Nixon organized his White House into three functional areas: The Office of the President, the National Security Council and the Domestic Council. Each President makes his own decisions on how he wants his White House to operate. There have been seven...
Alger And Priscilla Hiss, 2009 Model
In early June of this year readers of Washington's two dailies woke up to the news of the arrest of a much-liked, sophisticated, rather affluent local couple. W[alter] Kendall Myers, when FBI agents put the cuffs on him, was 72 years old; a great-grandson of Alexander...
Two New Books On Hiss-Chambers
May 31 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Alger Hiss's first trial for perjury, during which the onetime advisor to FDR at Yalta and secretary-general of the founding session of the United Nations in 1945 managed to secure a hung jury, thanks to an all-out...
Hiss And The Rosenbergs In Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Bob Hoover, the book-review editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (and, thus, belonging to a breed now perhaps more rare than the ivory-billed woodpecker) has written an article for that paper concerning Sam Roberts' recent New York Times stories about the Rosenberg...
From the Archives – Richard Nixon and Lee Kuan Yew Discuss Contemporary Foreign Policy Issues (1985)
[youtube https://youtu.be/7RDt9EghQFw] Ted Koppel, anchor of Nightline, interviews Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and former President Richard Nixon. The two discuss contemporary foreign policy issues and the growth of Southeast Asia following the Vietnam...
Tribute to First Lady Pat Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/cMcIKnSHtmc] A tribute to First Lady Pat Nixon narrated by Jimmy Stewart.