Aug 10, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In a nationally televised address on August 8, 1969, RN unveiled a series of domestic policies aimed at combating welfare dependency, alleviating poverty, and making government a more effective and responsible actor at solving America’s urban crisis. The...
Aug 9, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Korda, author of Ike: An American Hero, comments on David and Julie Eisenhower’s new book Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969: “David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s GOING HOME TO A GLORY is a wonderfully...
Aug 5, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
While President Nixon’s visit to Romania in 1969 was not his first to that country, it was the first visit by a President of the United States to Romania, the first to a socialist country, and the first to a state of Eastern Europe. Two years prior, having had his...
Aug 3, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Five hundred guests welcomed President Abraham Lincoln to the East Room today, where he spoke to youngsters about his life and how his early upbringing impacted his career choices and presidency. Honest Abe’s presentation was the fourth in the Nixon Foundation’s...
Jul 31, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Fifty years ago this week, RN accepted the Republican Party’s 1960 presidential nomination. One passage in his acceptance speech is striking: And now I want to speak to you of another kind of aggression, aggression without war, where the aggressor comes not as...
Jul 28, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Since his entrance onto the international stage as Vice President under President Eisenhower, President Nixon strived to maintain a healthy relationship with Middle Eastern leaders, particularly Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. At the time of his ascension to the...
