Jun 27, 2015 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/fd4PqAaOmfg] The Host of The Real Story on Fox News and Miss America Pageant Winner visited the Nixon Library on Saturday morning, June 27. Gretchen is the author of the new candid memoir, “Getting Real.”
Jun 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
In a memorandum to the heads of the executive departments and agencies dated April 21, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a program to recruit top women for mid- and high-level positions in the federal government. The president wrote, “it has been my desire to...
Jun 23, 2015 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Japan, News, Nixon Today
“Tokyo Threatened by Killing Pollution” was the headline that greeted newspaper readers on December 9th, 1970. The article, a piece by Michael Hornsby written originally for the Times in London, detailed Japan’s environmental struggles. It began by covering...
Jun 19, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Japan, News
This political cartoon from August 1971 suggests a foreboding future for relations with Japan. Fortunately, the reality was not so grim.One of the first National Security Study Memoranda (NSSMs) President Nixon issued was NSSM 5, a study on US policy toward Japan. The...
Jun 17, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Women's Affairs
Historically speaking, women have been consigned to the confines of the private, domestic sphere; tradition dictates that women are the homemaker, the caregiver, and the mother. However, how has this tradition been reconciled with the trend of women moving into the...
