Apr 27, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On Thursday, the George W. Bush Presidential Center was dedicated on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The Center includes the forty-third President’s Library and Museum as well as the George W. Bush Policy Institute and the offices of the...
Apr 26, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
The July 26, 1971 cover of Time Magazine featuring RN and Dr. Kissinger. To a very keen observer, President Nixon’s acceptance of Premier Chou En-Lai’s invitation to China would not have had as great a shock as it did to the rest of the nation. President Nixon, in...
Apr 24, 2013 | China, News
Dr. Kissinger with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai. President Nixon shocked the world when he accepted an invitation to China from Premier Chou En-Lai on national television. This event marked the beginning of the public’s awareness of administration efforts to normalize...
Apr 23, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
The U.S. Ping-Pong team became the first group of Americans to visit mainland China since the Communist takeover in 1949. “You have opened a new chapter in the relations between the American and Chinese people,” said Premier Chou En-Lai. “I am confident,” he...
Apr 22, 2013 | China, News
This piece is part of a companion series commemorating President Nixon’s Centennial and his historic 1972 journey to China. From May 1 through May 10, the Nixon Foundation is taking a delegation – led by RN’s grandson Christopher Nixon Cox – to...
Apr 20, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, News Media
Monday, April 22, marks the 44th annual observance of Earth Day. It was founded in 1970 at the urging of a number of environmental groups and others interested in bringing public attention to the threat to human, animal and plant life posed by pollution and other...
