Aug 13, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
On August 13, 1969, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted a huge state dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to honor the Apollo 11 astronauts on their safe return to Earth. Over 50 members of Congress and representatives from 83 foreign nations attended the...
Aug 12, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
On August 3, Paul W. McCracken died at the age of 96 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, his home since he began working as a professor of economics at the University of Michigan from the end of the 1940s until his retirement in 1986. His impressive career there was accompanied...
Aug 10, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Yet another often-forgotten Nixon Legacy — and an important moral one, at that — is the elimination of the use of biological weapons that began as a result of his directive in November 1969. Unilaterally, the U.S. discontinued its biological weapons...
Aug 8, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
August 8, 1969 was the beginning of a new cycle in American politics; one that marked the reversal of a trend that had been centralizing power in Washington for over 30 years. In an address to television and radio audiences, President Nixon introduced the nation to a...
Aug 8, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
In the July of 1969, President Nixon, along with the entire nation, watched as a promise made eight years earlier by President Kennedy—to put a man on the Moon—was finally fulfilled. This event captured the attention and imagination of the world as the United States...
