Jun 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
The establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 was one of the most important actions of Richard Nixon’s presidency, setting up an arm of the Federal government’s executive branch that now employs more than 17,000 people and operates a budget of...
May 27, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
Art Linkletter, who died yesterday at the venerable age of 97, was not the only nonagenarian to pass away this week who played a significant role in the life of President Nixon. On Sunday a man died in Arlington, Virginia, who was, rather incredibly, three months...
May 15, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
President Nixon’s primacy in foreign affairs has long been acknowledged even by his harshest critics. But his domestic record has tended both to be overlooked as a result of the conventional wisdom — particularly in the academy and the media — that he was...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News, Nixon Today
Introduction The Domestic Council and Office of Management and Budget were created on July 1, 1970. The result was that policy making on major domestic issues was consolidated into the Executive Office of the President. Henceforth, on domestic affairs—as had been the...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
“If the Government pays all the medical bills, then only the Government has a stake in holding down medical costs. This means that Government officials would have to approve hospital budgets and set fee schedules and take other steps that would eventually lead to the...
Apr 14, 2010 | Domestic Policy, News
President Nixon and the War on Cancer In January 2010, Dr. James Cavanaugh, one of RN’s principal advisers on health policy, spoke about the President’s early efforts at health care reform at the Nixon Library. His presentation was part of a panel of key White House...
