Nixon Today
Transcript: Emilie Raymond on Black Celebrities and the Civil Rights Movement
Emilie Raymond is author of "Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement." Jonathan Movroydis: Thank you for listening to the “Nixon Now” Podcast for the Nixon Foundation, I’m Jonathan Movroydis. Today, we're going to take a look at...
Book Review
The Mafia's President: Nixon and the Mob, by Don Fulsom Reviewed by Wallace H. Johnson I read with great interest the just released The Mafia’s President: Nixon and the Mob, written by Don Fulsom, a White House pool reporter through many presidencies, who professed to...
Asia After Viet Nam – Fifty Years On
By Conrad Black It is difficult now to resurrect how revolutionary and improbable it seemed fifty years ago to envision a reconstructed normal relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. In 1967 the Cultural Revolution was...
After Viet Nam: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the Search for a Strategy to End the Vietnam War
By Niall Ferguson On December 10, 1967, Clare Boothe Luce decided to bring together Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon at a pre-Christmas cocktail party in her elegant apartment at 933 Fifth Avenue. It was the first meeting between the two men who, more...
New Online Exhibit: “Asia After Viet Nam” at 50
Online Exhibit Marks 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Seminal 1967 Article “Asia After Viet Nam” at 50 is one of a series of online exhibits specifically designed by the Richard Nixon Foundation for digital viewing on desktops and mobile devices. In “Asia After...
Ping-Pong Diplomacy: How People Coming Together Established Sino-America Détente
An American tennis table player trains with a Chinese tennis table player, in April, 1971 in Beijing, China. (AFP/Getty Images) By Charlie Cauffman On April 5, 1971, the People’s Republic of China invited the United States table-tennis team to play their national team...