Budget Crisis: What Would Nixon Do?

Today’s beginning of the “shutdown” of the U.S. federal government tops an icy chapter in the relationship between our branches of government. President Nixon entered office as the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1848, with both houses of Congress controlled...

Extending Opportunities for Disabled Americans

It often bewilders me how influential President Nixon’s domestic policies remain to this day. It is truly remarkable that we live in an America that President Nixon envisioned, then helped to shape and create, to a large degree – especially considering that he has...

Understanding RN’s Roadmap Out of Vietnam

Forty years ago today, RN spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Louisiana, delivering a fiery and passionate defense of his administration’s foreign policy in – and exit strategy from – the jungles of Vietnam, and the importance of rebuilding America’s foreign...

40 Years Ago – RN Strengthens Persian Ally

RN and PN with the Shah and Empress of Iran during a state visit to the White House on July 1973. Forty years ago this week, RN welcomed Persian Ally, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Middle Eastern giant whose attempts to modernize Iran and build bridges with the West...