Dec 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech last Thursday, he cited President Nixon’s trip to China as an example of a bold and controversial action by a leader that furthered the cause of peace: In light of the Cultural Revolution’s horrors,...
Dec 11, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The #1 Fan in the 1950s: Vice President Nixon tosses a ball around in his Capitol Office. Several recent TNN posts (here, here, and here) have presented RN as a serious football fan. In fact, that puts the case mildly; he was the kind of enthusiast who puts the...
Dec 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, on 9 December 1969, President Nixon flew to New York to receive the National Football Foundation’s Gold Medal and to deliver a speech that was truly a labor of love. He was the guest of honor at the National Football Foundation and Hall of...
Dec 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s New Yorker:
Dec 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Be there or be square: Unless you were POTUS you needed one of these on 6 December 1969. Forty years ago today, RN flew on Air Force One to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then boarded Marine One for the hop to the parking lot at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, to watch...
