Dr. Kissinger’s Tribute to General Haig

At Time’s site today, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger writes about Gen. Alexander Haig’s passing: Societies become rich through ingenuity and hard work. But they become great because they produce men and women who lift them beyond the moment. Alexander Haig, who...

Diane Sawyer Speaks About Richard Nixon

As many of TNN’s readers know, Diane Sawyer, the veteran newswoman who now anchors ABC’s World News Tonight, spent the 1970s working in Richard Nixon’s White House, then, after his resignation from the Presidency, in San Clemente as his assistant for...

Bacevich: How About Some Nixonian Boldness

Scholar and retired soldier, Andrew Bacevich, wants U.S. leaders to be bold and abandon designs for redefining NATO’s mission: When Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s famous assessment of the situation in Afghanistan leaked to the media last year, most observers...

The Third Paragraph

In 2003, Gerald S. Strober and Deborah Hart Strober published an oral history of the Ronald Reagan presidency, the third in a series of such books. (The others concerned the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and the reign of Elizabeth II.) One section...

Article On Ron Walker In Orange County Register

During the Nixon Administration, Ron Walker headed the White House’s advance team, working on projects ranging in scale from the thirty-seventh President’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China to his visits to Washington-area schools. The...