Houston, We Have A Visitor

Yesterday was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the return to earth of the first two men to walk on the moon — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo XI crew. The day before yesterday, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a member of the Apollo XIV crew and the sixth man to...

25 July 1969: The Nixon Doctrine

The day after welcoming the Apollo XI astronauts home from the moon, RN talked with some reporters during a stopover on the mid-Pacific island of Guam. The backstory and the reception of his very few words on that July afternoon have been the subject of speculation on...

The Voice Of Experience On Experience

Our good friend Dick Allen, who served as RN’s foreign policy coordinator during the 1968 campaign, and was present at the creation of the Nixon Administration, has written an interesting piece —“Obama’s Experience Doesn’t Match...

24 July 1969: Home From The Moon

On 24 July 1969, RN was in mid-Pacific welcoming the Apollo 11 crew home from the moon. Like the rest of the mission, everything had gone almost flawlessly. After traveling 240,000 miles, the capsule —named Columbia— splashed down less than two miles from...

What’s In A Word?

“West Virginia already has the men to match her mountains – men of vigor and courage and determination .” – Sen. John F. Kennedy in Glenwood Park, West Virginia, April 26, 1960, one of dozens of campaign addresses in which he spoke of...