Oct 24, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Vietnam
President Nixon signs two landmark bills to expand Veterans benefits on this day in 1972 On October 24, 1972 President Nixon signed into law two bills that significantly expanded Veterans benefits, ensuring that not only those who were returning home from Vietnam were...
Oct 21, 2016 | Foundation News, News Media
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and wife Callista returned to the Nixon Library on Wednesday, October 19, for a special East Room talk. Before a full house of over 700, Gingrich payed homage to Richard Nixon’s political career and accomplishments while...
Oct 20, 2016 | News, Space
The Space Race demonstrated that the United States and Soviet Union could partake in peaceful competition and cooperation From Sputnik to the lunar landings, the Space Race represented one of the more electrifying aspects of the Cold War: the United States and the...
Oct 20, 2016 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today
Foreign Crisis and Pressure On October 6, 1973, Israel and her Arab neighbors Egypt and Syria went to war for the second time in six years. The United States helped out Israel in the Yom Kippur War, as it became known, and the Nixon Administration’s policy of Shuttle...
Oct 18, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union
The Four Power Agreement fused the objectives of Ostpolitik and Détente, setting Germany on the path to reunification Nowhere was the division between the East and the West more noticeable than Berlin. Following Allied victory in 1945, the United States, United...
