Nov 13, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
“In formulating my policies, I tried to strike a moderate balance. Inevitably I dissatisfied the people on both extremes…So let’s just tackle the problems instead of talking about them. We will be judged by what we do rather than what we say on this issue.” –RN, The...
Nov 12, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency
Documents from the National Archives detail how the Nixon administration approached the President’s re-election in 1972. The midterm elections of 1970 garnered minimal gains for the Republican Party and the prognosis of election year 1972 appeared pessimistic....
Nov 11, 2013 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/39f98R-eCuI] November 11, 2013: Veterans Day commemoration at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. Speakers included Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE); Lt. Brian Ward, POW; Bryan Bender, author of “You are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost...
Nov 11, 2013 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/2tBR0b34cec] November 11, 2013: Jake Tapper talks “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor,” his courageous account of Combat Outpost Keating, where 53 American soldiers defeated nearly 400 Taliban fighters resulting in one...
Nov 9, 2013 | News, News Media
In just under two weeks – on a Friday, as the workings of the calendar would have it – will fall the fiftieth anniversary of an event that took place early on a Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas, which marked one of American history’s most profound...