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“Very few speeches actually influence the course of history.  The November 3 speech was one of them.” —RN in RN Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon wrote and delivered a speech that both changed the course of American foreign policy and altered the...

40 Years Ago Today: An Historic Speech

In his introduction to the November 3 speech in his book Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, the late Bill Safire wrote: “There is nothing the president has reflected on with greater anguish,” Henry Kissinger told the Nixon senior staff in the...

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Echo of 1970?

The upcoming special election in the New York Twenty-third Congressional brings to mind an earlier three way election in the Empire State. The 2009 special election features Democrat Bill Owens, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Identifying...