Nixon Today
Transcript: Carl Anthony on the Power and Politics of First Ladies’ Fashion
Carl Anthony is guest curator of "Why They Wore It: The Politics and Pop Culture of First Ladies' Fashion," a special exhibit at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library Jonathan Movroydis: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for another edition of The Nixon...
Nixon on Asia “After the Cold War”
President Nixon seated with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Tokyo on April 6, 1993 (Richard Nixon Foundation). On April 21, 1993, former President Nixon — purely from memory and without notes — addressed former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu and...
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...