Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From the earliest days of RN’s administration he was plagued with leaks of highly classified material that ended up in the media. RN condemned the leaks as undermining his ability to end the war and conduct the nation’s foreign policy. The anti-war establishment...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Jonathan Karp, the editor of Senator Edward Kennedy’s posthumously published memoir True Compass, was a guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal the other morning. He discussed the Senator’s version of the disastrous 1979 CBS interview with Roger Mudd. The two men sat...
Sep 21, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 21 September 1972, RN announced the establishment of an Advisory Committee on the Economic Role of Women within the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He wrote: Women are playing an increasingly important role in the economy of our Nation. We in this...
Sep 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There must be something in the water over at the Daily Beast where posts sympathetic to RN (albeit unintended and/or inadvertent) have now appeared twice in three days. First it was Chris Matthews’ admiring exposition of the role Edward Kennedy and a panoply of...
Sep 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On 16 September 1969, RN announced his first major withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. After careful consideration with my senior civilian and military advisers and in full consultation with the Government of Vietnam, I have decided to reduce the authorized troop...
