Jun 2, 2017 | Post-Presidential Years, Pre-Presidential Years, Reports, Vietnam
Nixon biographer Farrell misinterprets a word and draws the wrong conclusion In his recent book Richard Nixon: The Life, journalist-biographer John A. Farrell claims to have found a hitherto overlooked document that proves the contention that Richard Nixon, as a...
Jan 5, 2017 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Today, Soviet Union
Although the Cold War is almost three decades behind us, relations between the United States and Russia are icy. Initial optimism for a friendly relationship began to ebb in the 2000s following a series of international incidents in Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and Crimea....
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...
Jun 28, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union, Vietnam
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States In May 1972, President Nixon faced one of the great foreign policy...
Apr 30, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Speeches
On the evening of April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced that the United States was going to attack North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries which were threatening allies from the Vietnamese-Cambodian border:Tonight, American and South Vietnamese units will attack...
