Feb 28, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Today concludes Black History Month 2010, and the Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record marks it with an interview with Bob Brown, who was the White House aide in charge of minority affairs in President Nixon’s first term. He recalls: When Brown [after...
Feb 27, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In 2000, James Rosen of Fox News interviewed Gen. Alexander Haig for his biography of John Mitchell. That book, The Strong Man, was published eight years later. But it turns out that, in the course of the three-hour conversation, the General talked of many other...
Feb 26, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
In the immediate aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before the nation accepting the total blame for what had happened. He referred to an old saying about victory having a thousand fathers, but defeat being an orphan, and...
Feb 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Together with retired Air Force General Charles F. Boyd, RN’s daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with the Nixon Center’s annual Distinguished Service Award in Washington on Wednesday, February 24. The program also included remarks...
Feb 25, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
At Time’s site today, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger writes about Gen. Alexander Haig’s passing: Societies become rich through ingenuity and hard work. But they become great because they produce men and women who lift them beyond the moment. Alexander Haig, who...
