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C-SPAN Radio broadcasted President Nixon’s taped conversations with future Presidents Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush yesterday. This was the first in a month long series of programs on the Nixon tapes. Click here to listen to the whole broadcast. Jonathan Movroydis is the Director of Communications at the Richard Nixon Foundation.
Former Nixon speechwriter Lee Huebner argues yes, during a panel discussion about GOP moderates at the Bipartisan Policy Center: Perhaps necessarily—since there aren’t any moderate Republicans left in Congress—the discussion was grounded in the past. Huebner evoked the glorious old days of the mid-20th century, when young Republicans rose up in defiant opposition to radical [...]
An excerpt of Yours in Truth, Jeff Himmelman’s upcoming biography about Ben Bradlee was posted on Sunday, April 29 in New York Magazine. Himmelman, who was given unprecedented access to Bradlee’s archives, alleges that the former Washington Post editor has serious doubts about the accuracy of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s reporting about Watergate: Ben’s [...]
In the Washington Post, Washington lawyer and former DoD consultant Elliot Feldman argues for the permanence of the all-volunteer force: The answer does not lie in larger forces that we cannot afford nor in a coercive system that is inherently unfair. The U.S. military must rely on volunteers, but we must also be fair and [...]
Played like a Nixonian diplomatic minuet? It was announced today that the U.S. will reduce its military footprint in Japan, while honoring its security commitments to the Asian island nation. The Guardian reports: Japan and the US have agreed to relocate thousands of US marines from Okinawa in a move aimed at reducing the island’s [...]
Former Nixon aide and future U.S. Ambassador to China Winston Lord, and Daily Beast contributor and then diplomatic correspondent Leslie Gelb, write of the 37th President’s diplomatic tour de force: Forty years past, world politics were churning with a vicious Vietnam War reaching its crescendo and with the great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, [...]
Our President’s daughter was invited to join actress Meryl Streep in the lead feature of January’s Vogue Magazine! The story and photo essay detail a bipartisan group of women who are spearheading the campaign for a National Women’s History Museum on the Mall in Washington.
From the school house to the White House: In an exclusive interview with TNN, William Gavin recounts his storybook rise from high school English teacher to presidential wordsmith, and how he honed his craft as a protégé of America’s 37th President. His new memoir, Speechwright: An Insider’s Take on Political Rhetoric hit bookshelves in November. [...]
The Richard Nixon Foundation honored Orange County’s heroes who lost their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. The OC Register’s Scott Martindale reports: One by one, the mothers and fathers stepped forward to receive a hug, a thank you and a Christmas ornament engraved with their child’s name on it. As they cradled the symbol [...]
The Richard Nixon Foundation and the National Archives co-presented a Nixon Legacy Forum in Washington Monday. The subject was the Nixon Administration’s relationship with organized labor, and how they sought a just and more equitable workplace, while balancing the need for economic growth and employment for all Americans seeking work. The panel was comprised of [...]
One of the longest serving House Sergeant-at-Arms and former Secret Service agent Bill Livingood is retiring after five decades of public service. Politico reports:
At National Review, author Conrad Black writes that America’s 37th President was one of the best ever:
In the Wall Street Journal, former Nixon aide Frank Gannon reviews novelist Anne Beattie’s new book, Mrs. Nixon: The real problem with “Mrs. Nixon” is that Ms. Beattie doesn’t like her subject very much. She is upfront about her distaste for RN (“I spontaneously recoil from any image of Richard Nixon”). She says, indirectly but [...]
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