Jul 25, 2016 | News, Nixon Today
Relatively unknown compared to Six Crises, Vice President Richard Nixon outlined his views on the pressing issues of the 1960 presidential election in his first published book The Challenges We Face. A collection of speeches and policy discussions from 1958 to 1960,...
Jul 19, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Now Podcast, Podcast, Soviet Union
Jussi Hanhimäki is Author of “The Rise and Fall of Detente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War.” Last week, the Nixon Foundation spoke with historian Jussi Hanhimaki on the subject of Detente with the Soviet Union during the...
Jul 7, 2016 | News, Nixon Today, Post-Presidential Years, Pre-Presidential Years, Presidency
1. In 1960, Richard Nixon and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were the first U.S presidential candidates to take part in televised debates. The debate series was divided into four parts, each dealing with substantive issues of the time. For those who listened to the...
Jul 1, 2016 | Foreign Policy
In his first address on foreign policy two months ago, presidential candidate Donald Trump explained that one of the key strategies missing in United States foreign policy was unpredictability. If elected President, Trump charged, it would serve for him and the nation...