Jun 18, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
As I mention at the blog around this time every year, Father’s Day, which arrives this Sunday, was first officially proclaimed a national holiday by President Nixon in June 1972. Here’s a moving column by David Whiting of the Orange County Register, who...
Jun 18, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal: There is still a sense about Mr. Obama that he needs George W. Bush in order to give his presidency full shape and meaning. In this he is like Jimmy Carter, who needed Richard Nixon, or rather the Watergate scandal,...
Jun 16, 2010 | News, The New Nixon
On June 14, 1974, President Nixon landed in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, his second stop in a five country peace tour of the Middle East. On the tarmac to meet him was King Faisal, an ardent anti-communist pivotal to the stability in the region. RN reflected on the meeting in...
Jun 15, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
The energy issue has been around for decades, so it is very hard for a president to say anything new about it. President Obama’s Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill is an example. Toward the end, he invoked images of American determination and ingenuity:...
Jun 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
The words pollution and environment were on many politicians mind in 1969. Improvement of the environment was an achievement during the Nixon administration. Nixon grasped issues rapidly and presented a comprehensive and broad legislative environmental agenda. A...
