Sep 21, 2013 | News, Pre-Presidential Years, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential...
Sep 18, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
“We passed a milestone of national awareness when we recognized for the first time that the bounty of energy resources we had taken for granted for so long was not as limitless as we had once thought.” RN, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon Economic powers such as Germany...
Sep 16, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
In April, the Office of National Drug Control Policy requested a $25.4 billion budget for 2014. The total budget would be divided as such: $10.7 billion allocated to prevention and treatment, $9.6 billion for domestic law enforcement, $3.7 billion for interdiction,...
Sep 13, 2013 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
On September 11, Vladimir Putin exercised a freedom protected by the United States that is not widely available in his country, freedom of the press. In what spread across the internet like wild fire, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed piece, published by the...
Sep 10, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
“Our States and cities find themselves sinking in a welfare quagmire, as caseloads increase, as costs escalate, and as the welfare system stagnates enterprise and perpetuates dependency.” RN, Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs August 8, 1969 Despite...
Sep 9, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
Transportation planning, especially in metropolitan areas such as greater Los Angeles, necessitates greater attention and priority of policy makers and community members. When congestion and stop-and-go traffic on highways become the norm of every working person’s...
