Apr 8, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Paul Chen, a student from the University of Virginia, writes in the student paper, The Cavalier Daily: President Richard Nixon once remarked “If there is anything I want to do before I die, it is to go to China.” Thirty years ago, President Nixon and Secretary of...
Apr 8, 2010 | China, Foreign Policy, News
On February 27, 1972, the United States and China put together the joint U.S-China communiqué, the conclusion of Nixon and Kissinger’s astonishing weeklong visit to the People’s Republic. Kissinger had begun to outline the Shanghai Communiqué with Chou En-lai around...
Apr 7, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Douglas Bandow — a Senior fellow at the Cato Institute — writes in the Nixon Center’s National Interest that “we are no longer sure” that the possibility of a peninsular war is low: The Republic of Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, has attempted to dampen speculation...
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Harry Robbins Haldeman, known professionally as H.R. Haldeman and to his friends, co-workers, and his President as “Bob,” was the Chief of Staff at Richard Nixon’s White House from January 20, 1969, until his resignation on April 30, 1973. The...
Apr 7, 2010 | Inside The Oval Office, News
Newspaper readers have their favorite sections. Everyone sees the headlines, but readers scatter after that: some to the comics, others to sports and still others straight to the obituaries and the weather. RN’s news summaries, however, offered a section unlike any...
