Dec 22, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
Tomorrow, December 23, marks four decades since President Nixon put his pen to paper and signed into law the National Cancer Act of 1971, which marks one of the most important and imperishable legacies of his Administration. It dramatically increased funding to the...
Dec 12, 2011 | Library & Foundation, News
It is less than two weeks before Christmas, and no doubt some readers of this blog, for whom no holiday season is complete without some gifts that bring the thirty-seventh President to mind, are a little nervous. Let’s say you’ve given everyone you know...
Nov 30, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
During this month the big political story on the Republican side of the 2012 presidential race has been the steady upward move of former Rep. Newt Gingrich in opinion polls. Following a rather shaky start, his ability to display his wide knowledge of policy topics...
Nov 9, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
The late 1960s and early 1970s – in other words, what we now call the Nixon years – were very eventful ones in the history of American sports. So many names and dates, sublime and heroic and sometimes comic, come to mind. Bobby Riggs facing Billie Jean...
Nov 2, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
For nearly fifteen years, television viewers have watched politico-turned-journalist Chris Matthews deliver his impressive lungpower on the talk show Hardball, first on CNBC, then MSNBC. Probably every block in the country has at least one resident who can do a...
