Mar 8, 2011 | Foreign Policy, News
It has been very clear, since the end of February, that the crisis in Libya is becoming an event that, without decisive handling by the world’s major powers, could endanger not only the global economy’s halting steps to recovery from the 2007-2009...
Feb 4, 2011 | Foreign Policy, News
John Coyne’s thoughtful review of David and Julie Eisenhower’s outstanding book, Going Home to Glory, also offers as insightful and concise an analysis of RN’s Vietnam policy as I have seen in quite some time. Read the review and then buy and read the book; there are...
Jan 16, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Inside The Oval Office, News
Anyone having the opportunity to interact with someone who is, say, more than eighty years old—and therefore remembers the Great Depression—knows that people back in those days thought differently about money and material things than most of us do today. Fifty years...
Sep 30, 2010 | Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty – or SALT I – was the first anti-ballistic missile treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union, and resulted in groundbreaking, unprecedented levels of agreement between the two ideological foes. For the first...
Jul 8, 2010 | Foreign Policy, News
When historians discuss U.S.-Soviet relations, they tend to place a special emphasis on the personal relationships formed between the leaders of the two superpowers. The common examples include FDR and Stalin, Reagan and Gorbachev – but what was the relationship like...
May 13, 2010 | Foreign Policy, News
As a youngster in Yorba Linda, Richard Nixon would lie awake at night in the small attic bedroom he shared with his brothers. He would listen to the whistles of passing trains and imagine the places they would visit. It is only one of many paradoxes in RN’s career...
