Jul 16, 2013 | Foundation News, Nixon Centennial, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/1Al8880LRd8] July 2013: Members of Native American tribes from all over the country congregated in Taos, New Mexico, where they celebrated Richard Nixon’s 100th birthday, and paid tribute to the 37th President for granting them...
Jul 16, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
In an open letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee sent on July 10, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel urged Congress to rethink the impending $52 billion cut from the defense budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The planned cuts are a result of the Budget Control Act...
Jul 16, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
On June 10, President Obama announced the appointment of Betsey Stevenson, economist and associate professor at the University of Michigan, to the Council of Economic Advisors. This is the not the first instance of the Obama Administration’s initiative for the...
Jul 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/pdf6ZN9X-ds] July 2013: President Nixon raised the bar on energy policy and led the country towards greater independence from foreign sources, said Jay Hakes, the Director of the Carter Presidential Library in a talk at the Nixon...
Jul 15, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Supreme Court
On June 25, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down Section 4b of the 1965 Voting Rights Act after a 5-4 vote in the case of Shelby County v. Holder. Section 4b provided the formula to determine which states and local governments needed approval from the...