Sep 8, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy
President Nixon with Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, June 1974. Nixon Presidential Library. By Jason Schwartz A hotbed of Cold War tension, the Middle East endured as a centrum of contrasting pressures throughout the Nixon presidency. Following the Six-Day War...
Sep 8, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy
Meeting in the Oval Office between Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi. 31 October 1973. Richard Nixon Presidential Library. By Matthew-Ryan Brazas Recently, President Trump has offered to serve as a mediator between Arab states in the...
Sep 5, 2017 | Artifacts, Domestic Policy
President Nixon with comedian Bob Hope. After calling into Hope’s telethon for Hurricane Camille support, Nixon championed the comprehensive Disaster Relief Act of 1970. (Photo Credit: AP) Hitting the coast of Mississippi in August of 1969 and sweeping through...
Sep 5, 2017 | Foundation News, Vietnam
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History, by Geoffrey C. Ward, with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and based on the film series by Burns and Novick, was published September 5th by Alfred A. Knopf. The 460-page book is intended as a companion to the 18-hour...
