Oct 29, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foundation News, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/6DWzoXCHT_M] October 19, 2011: On the 38th anniversary of America’s first energy crisis caused by the 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo, three Nixon administration officials who formulated and executed the thirty-seventh President’s energy...
Sep 22, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
Years after losing to RN in the 1972 presidential election, George McGovern started a small business. In part because of taxes and government regulations, it went bust. At the Houston Chronicle, Chris Ladd writes: McGovern described the lessons he learned from his...
Aug 10, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
This week two columns at Bloomberg.com discuss different aspects of the economic initiatives President Nixon launched in August 1971, which produced changes in the American economy which still reverberate today. One is by Joseph J. Thorndike, a leading tax historian...
Aug 8, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon TV
August 8, 2011: Nixon Administration officials discuss Presiden Nixon’s national policy to transfer power from the federal government to state and local governments. Participants included Edwin Harper and James Falk, Associate Directors of the Domestic Council;...
Aug 5, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News
In another few days, thirty-seven years will have passed since the resignation of the thirty-seventh President. The recent passing of Betty Ford has reminded Rachel Patron, a writer for the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Sun-Sentinel, of the example of courage and...
Jul 6, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to Midwestern news executives. In The New York Times, Tom Switzer quotes that speech to suggest that RN embraced American decline: Not only had the Soviets matched U.S. military might, the old cold warrior conceded, but Japan and...
