Dec 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a brief (and highly selective) look back forty years ago — to 1969. Many other important and memorable events occurred — but their photos haven’t yet reached the internet. On 20 January 1969, RN was inaugurated as...
Dec 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In A Life in Full, his biography of RN, Conrad Black surveys the situation at the end of the Nixon Administration’s first year, on New Year’s Eve 1969: Nixon had withdrawn another 50,000 men from Vietnam by year’s end, bringing U.S. force levels down...
Dec 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The creation of the Domestic Council in 1970, roughly patterned after the National Security Council NSC), consolidated policy making on domestic issues into the Executive Office of the President. Coupled with the transformation of the former Bureau of the Budget into...
Dec 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On Wednesday, Colonel Robert L. Howard, the most decorated American soldier living, passed away at the age of 70. He served five tours of duty in Vietnam and the extraordinary list of honors and unit citations he received in those years is itemized in his Wikipedia...
Dec 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
With the prospect of debates among British party leaders, an article in The Australian opines: Appearances do not only matter in television debating: they are, in some ways, the only things that matter. The first TV debate in 1960 pitted a sweaty, unshaven Richard...
