Oct 26, 2015 | News, Nixon's Comeback, Wilderness Years
In September, 1952 the Hill family of Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania was held hostage by three escaped convicts for nineteen hours. The Hills were released without incident, and two of the convicts were later killed by police officers attempting to capture them.In the...
Oct 23, 2015 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
In 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, designed to implement a series of reforms that would provide more funding and research opportunities in an effort to find methods of diagnosis and treatment, as well as a cure to the menacing disease. The...
Oct 22, 2015 | News, Vietnam
Bob Woodward’s charge in his new book The Last of the President’s Men that President Nixon knew that the bombing of Laos and North Vietnam in the early 1970s “was not working” and “defended and intensified it in order to advance his re-election prospects” is based...
Oct 22, 2015 | News, Uncategorized
An early 1969 memorandum written by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger to President Nixon assesses the situation in Vietnam as it stood at the dawn of Richard Nixon’s presidency. In these 17 pages Kissinger outlined a new strategy for an old and tired war;...
Oct 21, 2015 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/O-OPPQS0jj8] October 21, 2015: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich returned to the Nixon Library to discuss the 2016 elections, the state of American politics and his new novel Duplicity, a gripping thriller to which Gingrich brings his...
