Oct 22, 2018 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
President Richard Nixon with George H.W. Bush upon being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. 12 January 1970 (George H.W. Presidential Library). In an August 8, 1989 memo to President George H.W. Bush, President Nixon urged his successor and one-time...
Nov 10, 2017 | Middle East, News
By Jason Schwartz After several weeks of fighting in October 1973 between Israel and the adjacent Arab nations, the Yom Kippur War had reached conditions which threatened further escalation. Each side had respectively been resupplied by their ideological...
Nov 10, 2017 | Middle East, News
President Nixon arrives in Israel on June 16, 1974. By Jason Schwartz Ripe with political and ideological tension, outstanding disputes between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations once again came to blows on 6 October 1973. The expansion of Israeli controlled...
Oct 11, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
43 years ago, the deadliest Arab-Israeli military conflict commenced with a surprise attack, coordinated mainly by Egypt and Syria, on the Israeli occupied territories in Suez and the Golan Heights. The Yom Kippur War would instantly go down in infamy as the bloodiest...
May 10, 2016 | Middle East, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/n2DVo2ES7e0] May 10, 2016: Author of The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World. Under President George W. Bush, Zalmay Khalilzad represented the U.S. as Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United...
