Aug 21, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
RN wrote the little known The Meaning of Communism to Americans on August 21, 1960, flatly contending that Americans needed to better understand the socialist and communist philosophies in order to overcome them ideologically. At the time the Cold War was raging and...
Aug 20, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Forty-two years ago today, RN visited Mexico for an official state visit. Arriving in Puerto Vallarta, it was his first state visit to a Latin American country and he noted the occasion in a personal way: Mr. President, as I’m sure you know, it is for Mrs. Nixon...
Aug 16, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Today marks the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. One of the most popular musical icons of the 20th century, Elvis transformed popular music and had an unprecedented effect on popular culture. His meeting with RN in 1970 produced some of the most iconic...
Aug 13, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
On August 13, 1969, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted a huge state dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to honor the Apollo 11 astronauts on their safe return to Earth. Over 50 members of Congress and representatives from 83 foreign nations attended the...
Aug 10, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
Yet another often-forgotten Nixon Legacy — and an important moral one, at that — is the elimination of the use of biological weapons that began as a result of his directive in November 1969. Unilaterally, the U.S. discontinued its biological weapons...
