Aug 10, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
This week two columns at Bloomberg.com discuss different aspects of the economic initiatives President Nixon launched in August 1971, which produced changes in the American economy which still reverberate today. One is by Joseph J. Thorndike, a leading tax historian...
Aug 8, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Nixon Legacy Forums, Nixon TV
August 8, 2011: Nixon Administration officials discuss Presiden Nixon’s national policy to transfer power from the federal government to state and local governments. Participants included Edwin Harper and James Falk, Associate Directors of the Domestic Council;...
Aug 5, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News
In another few days, thirty-seven years will have passed since the resignation of the thirty-seventh President. The recent passing of Betty Ford has reminded Rachel Patron, a writer for the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Sun-Sentinel, of the example of courage and...
Jul 6, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago today, RN spoke to Midwestern news executives. In The New York Times, Tom Switzer quotes that speech to suggest that RN embraced American decline: Not only had the Soviets matched U.S. military might, the old cold warrior conceded, but Japan and...
Jan 27, 2011 | Domestic Policy, News, The New Nixon
“We will move forward together, or not at all,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address. Readers of this blog may have noticed that this line echoed one from RN’s 1969 inaugural: “To go forward at all is to go forward...
Jan 16, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Inside The Oval Office, News
Anyone having the opportunity to interact with someone who is, say, more than eighty years old—and therefore remembers the Great Depression—knows that people back in those days thought differently about money and material things than most of us do today. Fifty years...
