Oct 8, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
To plant the seeds of bureaucratic reform, President Nixon sought after advisors who were characterized by intellectual pugnacity and a challenger’s spirit. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the eventual head of the President’s Urban Affairs Counsel, was just the right man to...
Oct 7, 2013 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey As the issue of immigration reform is debated in Washington and America witnesses a growing Latin American voting demographic, many might be surprised to learn that the first “Latino” President was none other than Richard Nixon. In his first year in...
Oct 3, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
As the Los Angeles Dodgers look to close out the 2013 National League Division Series over the Atlanta Braves, we look back to the 37th President’s lifelong love of baseball and admiration for the “Boys in Blue.” “I never leave a game before...
Oct 1, 2013 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years
Today’s beginning of the “shutdown” of the U.S. federal government tops an icy chapter in the relationship between our branches of government. President Nixon entered office as the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1848, with both houses of Congress controlled...