Sep 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
As a follow-up to the first annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality transmitted in 1970, President Nixon released a report titled, “President’s Report of Study and Surveys of the Hazards to Human Health and Safety from Common Environmental Pollution” in...
Sep 24, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
A May 6, 1971 memorandum from Domestic council staff member Will Kriegsman to Council of Economic Advisors Chair Paul McCracken, describes a meeting between the coal industry and representatives of President Nixon’s administration about the crash program for the...
Sep 22, 2015 | Japan, News
On September 26, 1971, Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, touched down in Anchorage, Alaska, where President Nixon was waiting to greet him. The meeting was brief, as the emperor was Europe-bound: his plane landed at 10 pm and took off again at 11:40. Nevertheless, it...
Sep 21, 2015 | Japan, News
On January 6-7, 1972, President Nixon met with the Prime Minister of Japan, Sato Eisaku, at San Clemente to hammer out the details of the upcoming reversion of Okinawa. It was nearly the end of a difficult and emotional but ultimately successful venture. The US...
Sep 17, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Foundation News
In this groundbreaking study Roham Alvandi offers a new account of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's relationship with the United States by examining the partnership he forged with President Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. Based on extensive research in the...
