Aug 5, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, Republican Party, Vice President Nixon
In 1921, Alice Paul of the National Women’s Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for constitutional gender equality. The original version read: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction....
Aug 2, 2013 | Communism, Domestic Policy, News, Soviet Union, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey Bradley Manning, in one of the most recent high-profile court cases in America, has been convicted on 20 charges of mishandling data for providing hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to Wikileaks. Violating the Espionage Act of...
Aug 1, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
New documents released by Britain’s National Archives reveal a speech prepared on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, in 1983, to be delivered if the world have descended into nuclear war. With the Cold War constantly threatening to turn hot, this type of catastrophic event...
Jul 31, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Earlier this week, The White House Council on Native American Affairs, which is composed of members of more than 30 federal departments and agencies, held its first meeting in Washington D.C. The Council, created by President Obama through an executive order on June...
Jul 31, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
On December 23, 1971 President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 into legislation, consequently launching the national War on Cancer. President Nixon supported cancer research throughout his presidency into his years as elder statesman. Addressing...
Jul 29, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
This past Tuesday marks the forty-first anniversary of the Education Amendments of 1972. On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed the amendments which included the non-busing policy and Title IX. Title IX had a broad but inconspicuous potential to its legislators, as...
